Locked down with my Ukulele 21

These are strange times and I had to take a break from the computer screen for a while. Most of my work is in front of a large screen and I have to wear glasses. I got to a point when I had to give my eyes a break.

This should have lead to a backlog of subjects and songs to rattle on about. This has not happened. I have had to get a good nights sleep in.

I am employed and do have a full caseload of work. It would be easy to loose discipline and end up writing in my work time. Especially working from home. I see this as stealing time from my employer. My conscience would bother me and I’d get stressed if I fell behind in my workload. So I write in the evenings and weekends. If I have an idea I have to get it down while it’s still fresh. I could become bored with it otherwise. It might be new on the screen but its been in my head a while.

This will explain to some of you the variance in the standard of writing.

I have been musing on the existence of a divine being, a creator.

I do believe in God. I gave this considerable thought in my latter years in school. If you believe in the big bang you have to have the faith that the materials existed to start. If you believe in God you have to have the faith that he exists. Either way you need the faith in the beginning. I don’t believe that a basis in science and a belief in god are exclusive.

The question then is if he does exist is he interested and does he have an influence? If he is then how would he communicate? Voices from the sky?

My belief is that he does exist and he has left a handbook for life. How to tune in to this communication? Prayer.

In this age and under these circumstances faith might be stretched to breaking point. For some life’s circumstances, both past and present may colour their feelings about the presence of an almighty being. I have met some people who are angry at God because of their life experience.

I can only state from my own experience. There is a statement in the bible “Bring the entire tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in my house; and test me out, please, in this regard,” Jehovah of armies says, “to see whether I will not open to you the floodgates of the heavens and pour out on you a blessing until there is nothing lacking.”(Mal 3:10)

In my own experience I have tested out and have not had hard times taken away from me. I have been moulded by experience both good and bad. But I have been supported. Just when I think I can’t take anymore something unexpected or someone unexpected shows up. When I look back I realise I have been at times emotional carried. As I say I can only speak from my experience.

I can also say that my questions about where we have come from, where we are going and why we have the problems we have, have to my satisfaction been explained.

Just around the corner

This song crept up on me. I’ve put the link down to the site where this original song can be found.

https://www.jw.org/en/library/music-songs/original-songs/just-around-the-corner/?content=video

It’s worth watching the video on this as it’s about the future.

I’ve found the cords work for the ukulele quite well and its one of my favourite tunes at the moment. A word of warning! The stuff on this site is heavily copyrighted so don’t record it to social media.

Great message though.

Stay safe