glorycloud's Diaryland Diary

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did not chose the fear of the LORD

It is 12:40 PM Wednesday afternoon here in Western Michigan. It is 41 degrees and cloudy. I see once awhile rays of sunlight, but mainly it is overcast. I remember when we lived in Houston Texas there many days of just gray sky. When we lived in Jackson Mississippi there were never any gray cloudy days, just sun and rain type weather. Sometimes I find myself missing Mississippi. Our daughter Bethany was born in Jackson, Miss..

I got up this morning around 7 o'clock AM. When I came up out of the Lower Level I found my wife frying eggs for breakfast. When I get up in the morning I get out of my Study my paper diary materials and then come to our dining room to wake-up. I also fried myself eggs for breakfast. During breakfast my wife and I talked and then we had morning devotions.

My wife left to do errands this morning and then to go visit a friend with another friend South of where we live. My wife is rare in that she always seeks to meet with her friends and family members. Carol is always reaching out, whereas most people stay locked up in their little lives. Me personally I am a loner. When I was growing up no one paid any attention to me or talked to me. I never knew my father and my mother was off in her own world (miseries). My mother was killed in a car wreck when she was 36 years old. I never really knew my mother either. I basically grew up alone till Carol and I got married now going on 44 years. Carol is the only person on earth who knows me or even wants to know me. I am thankful the Lord Jesus loves me and knows me inside and outside. God's love sustains me in this Wasteland world.

I got my hair cut and beard trimmed this morning. I read this morning from these books-

'The Christian's Great Interest' by William Guthrie

'Biblical Reasoning: Christological And Trinitarian Rules For Exegesis' by R. B. Jamieson & Tyler R. Wittman

'The Spiritual Life' by Campegius Vitringa Translated And Edited By Charles K. Telfer Foreword By Richard A. Muller

'The Science of Sacred Theology' Complete In One Volume By Emmanuel Doronzo, O.M.I.

Yesterday Amazon delivered a book I had ordered which I read last night before going to bed, 'The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World' biography by Paul Fisher. I also read last night from a book titled, 'Rimbaud the Son' by Pierre Michon Translated by Jody Gladding & Elizabeth Deshays.

It is now 1 o'clock PM and I suppose I will close write in my paper diary and wait. Do not know for sure when Carol will be home this afternoon.

"[22] How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
[23] Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
[24] Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
[25] But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
[26] I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
[27] When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
[28] Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
[29] For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
[30] They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
[31] Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
[32] For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
[33] But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil." Proverbs 1:22-33

1:05 p.m. - 2023-01-11

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