"...you're lagging..." [Noah Hamilton]

Sunday (likely since I didn't finish this then, it'll post with today's date) I woke up with a lot less energy than normal and a distracting headache and apparently my mother is experiencing the same symptoms so I would say it is very likely to be viral.

Anyhow, I don't want to assert God is perhaps punishing, or maybe disciplining [Hebrews 12] me is a better word, neither may or may not be true. However, a part of me does wonder if maybe because I didn't make use of my day of 'untimely rest' getting more ill/sick than I expected on Sunday that I find myself injuring myself in an unexpected way by slipping and landing on my shoulder pretty badly the night after that perhaps God decided to 'take it up a notch' as I had intended to finish this blog and some other more 'below the surface' entries to reflect more upon life.

The intention of this blog was again to change my prayer request(s) from the last entry slightly in terms of I realize that maybe God's plans for me haven't changed, but how often do we like to think of things on our schedule? And how often does sin prevent us from having the correct schedule that is in line with God's? Even though it may not be as explicit in Exodus (this I would have to research), I recently been trying to reread/study the book of Acts and I found an interesting parallel in Acts 7:30 where it indicates that Moses himself also had also spent 40 years from that time he defended an Egyptian slave till Yahweh sent the burning bush...

I look at this blog in itself, there was this one Friday I was kind of on cloud nine (this was NOT that day, but I wrote about that reflection day here: [http://life-of-agent-k.blogspot.ca/2017/12/ijohn-1922-ohtheres-that-number-again.html] ) and was thinking that I have now laboured 14 years on this blog but I am forgetting about my 3 years of almost complete silence from 2013-2016 so I'm kind of "lagging" in that sense too...Not so much the '400 years of Silence' between the Old Testament and the New Testament, in terms of length and for the most part I was too lazy to write and keep up with my writing skills. Something I am regretting as it may have helped with getting more interviews sooner perhaps or potentially I could have gotten more education within some of those years had I kept up the relevant skills more fervently.

So there's definitely some areas where I feel like I am behind in my life, according to my schedule, but not necessarily God's schedule, as God's perception of time, or 'urgency' may be different from our own [Psalm 90:4, 2 Peter 3:8]. I know I definitely envisioned being married as my biological father used to put it "many moons ago" and often we wonder why God is being 'slow', but in the second reference I quoted, the very next verse says that is not the case [2 Peter 3:9].  It is not my intention to take the verse 'out of context' as some have cautioned as even some people know how 'long' it can seem to be sometimes to lead/assist someone to have a relationship with Christ, likewise other relationships can also be more time consuming to develop than we anticipate.

I find it ironic that some time ago when I was discussing the following series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Once_Upon_a_Time_episodes with a friend about how I kind of relate to Regina, because a 'certain someone' was kind of like my 'stable boy' and also that I really liked season 1 cause when I started following the series after it already aired a few seasons, in season one I told her I liked it cause everything and every theme such as the irony of Regina telling Henry she doesn't like him reading the book cause "you think I'm some evil queen" was more funny to me when I already knew the answer to that question but it was still a concept that was 'fresh' for that season. As recently I've had more time to finally spend re-watching season 3, which she told me was her favourite when I asked and it got around to Season 3, Episode 3 as of this week.  Weeks ago I had only finished Ep 1 and most of Ep 2 when I briefly started it while reorganizing my room after the family SUV broke down...