Ron's Random Ruminations

So, I've been working on getting my prayer life going again on a regular and consistent basis. I have a lot more work to do in this area. This is true also of my time spent studying and mediating on the Word of God.

Pray for me!

It is my manner to just go about my business and leave others alone.

I am not a schmoozer. I’m a private man who generally doesn't hang out with anyone but my family.

I’m a funny, sometimes hilarious guy with a sense of humor as biting as the January wind in Chicago. But it's not in my personality to reveal that or myself to many people.

Moreover, I can be gruff and intimidating to those who don't know me.

Some people are uncomfortable with the way I deal with them and are scared to death to speak up for themselves.

Yet, bring in my wife, one of the world's nicest people, and these people would tell you I was a changed man. Maybe I should have her around me more often. She tends to bring out the best me.

I haven't written much lately. I've been fighting through the flu. Also been doing some soul searching. Is it just me or is the world just blowing a lot of hot air? All these talking heads out there, pundits, bloggers, so-called experts. Everyone thinks he or she has the right answers. It all seems so meaningless to me.

I thank God for His Son Christ Jesus who has delivered me from the torments and emptiness of this world! Ahhh, now I feel much better! Writing is a good catharsis for me.

For the most part, I wrote this solely for my purposes, to amuse myself and as a way to make me write. I still feel like I need to be a people pleaser and write something profound  for people to read and comment on. Though today I have nothing. I’m suffering from writer's block.

I’m even bored writing this. And now that I’ve bored you all as well-not my intentions, but inevitable-I do sincerely apologize. I wonder if I’m the only one though who gets bored with their life and sick of waiting for things (good or bad) to happen; I’m in a rut.

I shall pose this question to you: do you get bored with your life? What do you do to cure the boredom?
Discuss.

My political view (for anyone who cares),  is that I feel both sides (Rebublicans/Democrats) have woefully fallen short of the demands of the Kingdom of God. In some ways I am more Liberal than the Democrats and more Conservative than the Republicans. People come first in God's economy. Only by changing the hearts of individuals can we ever change the world.

It saddens me deeply that here, in the richest, most powerful nation in the history of the world, people on both sides (if a person even cares enough to be on a side) allow themselves to be duped into hating each other rather than living up to our great potential. This is a tragedy.

I believe we, as humans beings, are diverse, complicated, contradictory, and changeable across time and place. It's shortsighted to try to label ourselves as being of this camp or that.

So, with all that said, I am on the side of God, His Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. But if you insist on labeling me, you can call me an Independent. Whichever the case, I am me and most important of all, a child of God.