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My Burden is Lifted

After a long dream that ended with me eating the moon and stars at a picnic, I lay partially awake in bed and began stretching my arms overhead to ease the tension in my back. That nagging backache has been with me for a couple of years and no amount of stretching advice that my mother gave me had helped. Just then, my shoulders responded with several cracking sounds. I shifted my body a little to see if I could move. Not only was I alright, but the tension in my back was gone! Praise God! I was reminded of the bible verse that had been in my phone app for the past couple of days, a sobering warning about what is to come. Watch Yourselves 34 “But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap. 35 For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that ar...

Fair-weather Friend

*Sigh* It's a burden not being able to be straight-up honest with a friend about particular habits that irk me like: cancelling our hangouts at the last minute when I'm already waiting at the meeting place. being hours late and then changing the meeting place for one's convenience not providing a reason for cancelling the hangout or coming up with unbelievable excuses for being a no-show not being open to share about one's life but probing for more information about mine. insisting on hanging out but have no plans for the outing and no topics to chat about i.e. splitting ways to check out some shops asking for my advice and not taking it Anyway, I was in a foul mood that day after feeling that I had been walked over yet again. However, while I was walking along the roadside,  I found the following verse on my mobile app which comforted me. "Set Your Face Like Flint": 7 But the Lord God helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced; therefor...