Soap for Jesus

With my best friend arriving tomorrow, my birthday in two days time, and three days off work, I was really hoping today wouldn't hit me as badly as it has. Depression-exhaustion hit in over the last week, accompanied by nightmares (which I can barely remember due to the exhaustion) and finally I woke up this morning having clawed three grazes into my back overnight. Great. Not wanting to listen to Christian music, I deliberately plugged it in on the way to work and settled it into the background with praying...which was hard...and trying to read the Bible...which was nigh on impossible. Work went good. Really good. I even got a compliment off a client for the research I did before coding her project. And my colleagues were their usual humorous...if somewhat painfully so...selves. The walk home kinda released the emotions though. Songs I couldn't listen to were skipped...a few went through biting back tears. Because today, well over 100 of my friends will be hopping in...

Games are addictive. Some of them. I love games that make you think - games like chess, Tetris, Articulate. Mind challenging games. But then there's the wonderful world of Facebook that adds more addictive games than you can imagine. About four months ago, now, I went back to playing Farmville on Facebook after a couple of years ranting against games like these. Admittedly, it saved my bacon at the time. It's quite a simple little game - you plant plots of dirt, grow crops, raise animals, cook and sell food on the market, water trees, visit neighbours. It's fun, and relaxing. Especially with the wind and bird noises. Recently I started monitoring my time spent during a day. Since my life is God's, I want to use it to the best of my ability to His glory. I have only one life to live, and when I'm called to account for it, I want to have used it wisely. As previously said, I used to play online games a lot, then turned against them. I was asked to blog about ...