How was your Friday the 13th?

Well, it's Friday, December 13, 2024. Not a whole lot said about Friday the 13th today, but I could swear there were fewer cars on the road this morning on the way to work.It occurred to me to look this up online, if people stay home from work on Friday the 13th. Found this online: "While not everyone does, some people choose to stay home from work on Friday the 13th due to the superstition that it is an unlucky day, leading to a noticeable decrease in business activity for some companies as people avoid travel or shopping on that date." I find this incredibly insane. I never paid too much attention in the past, but it was starkly noticeable this morning. So superstition exists. How crazy is that? People will believe just about anything, and yet they are so averse to believing in God and Jesus. The longer I walk this walk the more I wonder what keeps people from serving God or fearing God or loving God. It's so crazy. There seems to be a lot written about it online, but, you know, I don't really want to know. It's absurd. If it is in the Bible, it is somebody's twisted spin on it, as there is no superstition in the Bible, no belief that any day is more likely than any other day for bad things to happen. I am mildly worried about the idea of doing away with Daylight Savings Time. I just read that we have DST like about eight months out of the year, so if they take it away we will have the darkness early for the whole year. What will the advantage of that be? Anyway, why should they do away with Daylight Savings Time? It's not a big enough concern to do serious study on, unless I was doing it for pay, and I am not doing this for pay. For pay I would write about Friday the 13th, but for myself, I am not that interested. For pay I would write about Daylight Savings Time, but for myself, I am not that interested. That is the best part about not writing for pay, not that I wrote for pay in any way except when I was working for weekly newspapers. I like writing news and feature stories for newspapers, but I really like writing whatever I am interested in writing about that I am not getting paid for. I don't even know what I think about this life anymore when I'm home from work with no people and no animals and can do pretty much exactly what I want to do. Some people think that's a great thing. Someone I knew who later divorced her husband said I was lucky to live alone and do whatever I wanted to do. Some people think that. I think that probably the best way to be is whatever state you are in if God has you there. I like to read 1 Corinthians 7 when I need to review why I am living his way. Paul wrote: "Let each one remain in the same calling in which he was called" (1 Corinthians 7:20 and, "Brethren, let each one remain with God in that state in which he was called" (1 Corinthians 7:24).I know people like to remind you that the first century Christians thought that Jesus was coming to take them up in their lifetime, and so they shouldn't be troubling themselves with earthly concerns like moving from one place to another pursuing the success of the world, or hurrying up to find a spouse if they were single.In other words, just stay where you are until God moves you. I thought I was doing this, but maybe I was just still 'flighty" like my friend's father said I was. Most of the time I like my life just fine, and it's simple and I can walk with God in it without a lot of drama and stress and worry and anxiety, and it's mostly just fine. I am not supposed to be worrying about all the stuff I'm going to leave behind when I suddenly die, but I think I'm one of those people that always has to have something to worry about. All the spiritual people will be reminding me now that Jesus said not to worry and Paul said not to worry so I am not supposed to worry about anything, but that is just part of the baggage I brought with me, I guess. I could do a blog about living with a single mom, too, I suppose, and one who sometimes I worried about--rather, I regularly worried about her. If she wasn't home after whe went to the store, I worried about where she was, and I couldn't relax until I heard her drive up in the driveway. It was awful, really. I didn't want her to go to the liquor store, and I didn't want her to go to friends' houses and drink. I spent lots of time worrying about those things. Right now I am thinking about going ahead and getting ready for bed. I still have some reading I want to do, and I am tired. I am trying to break the habit of staying up super late on Friday night, like until 2 a.m. or so. It's not a good habit, I don't think.I also need to be rested so I can work on my December singing gig with the ladies at the retirement center Monday night. Going to have to prepare some Christmas songs. I go over there once a month, and I'm telling you what, it is so much more rewarding than playing in bars. I really don't want to play in bars. I don't even really want to play in coffee houses anymore. I haven't played in bars since I've been saved, and that is for 45 years. I used to think I needed to play professionally or I would never be able to be happy, but now I can't think of anything I would like to do less than play in another bar, or even, to be honest, perform on a stage in front of a crowd of people, and I finally settled it in my mind and heart that God's plan was going to be the best, and that wasn't part of it. Someone I did worship with (sang with) at Celebrate Recovery for a time used to be in a band that came very close to having a recording contract. He was brilliant on the keyboard. But God made him a worshipper and a preacher and one of the things he used to say was, "God knew if I stayed in the life of a rock star, it would kill me." And it does kill a lot of people. That didn't kill him. Cancer killed him, and it was a huge loss to all who knew him, and I praise the Lord for the privilege of having sung with him in that ministry and those words resonate in my spirit a lot: "God knew that would kill me." I don't know if it would have killed me or not. I just know that what God had planned was best for me, and I'm living in that now, with all it's ups and downs, and I will take whatever he has for me because I can trust him. I love trusting the Lord. Maybe I should do that song on Monday ("'Tis So Sweet To Trust in Jesus"). I like the old songs. They tell the truth about things so much better than most of the new songs. But that's another topic for another day. Goodnight.