Part of the concept I have for my book is to include a scripture verse with each chapter, so I asked two of my peeps to search and find appropriate and relevant verses for each chapter.
One of my scripture seekers entered the actual verse as well as the chapter:verse reference in a shared document, and one of them wrote down the chapter:verse references and gave them to me.
I'm ashamed to say, I haven’t looked up bible verses since my confirmation days, so the first step was to find our bible. Once I laid my hands on it, I got down to work looking up verses. I found out that it doesn’t take long to remember what I learned in Sunday School, and soon I was reciting the books of the bible in order in my head as I looked up verses.
Then I came to one reference for a book I didn’t remember: Lamentations. I had to consult the table of contents for this one, then flipped through the Old Testament to find it between Jeremiah and Ezekiel.
As I scanned through the chapters of Lamentations, I realized that this particular book of the bible could have been written for Captain, who is the champion of gloom and doom in our world. Seriously, he is a cross between Eyeore, Piglet, and Oscar the Grouch. Instead of a tur-duck-en, he is an Eye-pig-car.
Take, for instance Lamentations 1:20, “See, O Lord, how distressed I am!” Or one verse later, “People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me.” For Eye-pig-car, it would be more like, “That’s okay, take the last pork chop. I’ve been hungry before, I’ll be hungry again.”
At this time of year with the excitement of Christmas long gone and the dark, dreary days of January upon us with nothing to look forward to until St. Patrick’s Day, it’s easy to fall into a routine of complaining; lamenting, if you want to be biblical about it. That's why you haven't seen a blog post for nearly a month. Nothing I was coming up with was remotely uplifting, humorous, or thought-provoking. Nope, it was all whine, bitch, complain--lamentations! So I spared you that and waited out the crabbies.
For many years, we have tried to it make a tradition to get away for a weekend in late January or early February. It seems to break up the monotony and gloom of winter so we can survive until spring. We are never gone more than 24 hours, and oftentimes less than that, but somehow it is enough to recharge and rejuvenate.
A couple of years ago, we went to A Hot Air Affair in Hudson, Wisconsin. We stood and waited in the chilly afternoon for the hot air balloons to launch, but the weather was not cooperating. We thought we’d try it again this year, but if the weather forecast is anywhere near accurate, we will once again not see the balloons launch.
That doesn’t mean we won’t have things to do, mind you. We might visit the Minnesota History Center if it’s too unpleasant to be outdoors, or we might visit Minnehaha Falls if the weather cooperates. We are for sure going to 4:00 mass at the cathedral in St. Paul and then meeting Big Brother and his wife for dinner and drinks.
Either way, we will be doing something fun without the daily routine of work and chores getting in the way which just makes me happy!
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