Doug Van Pelt

One Final Heartbreak

Demon Hunter rules. I like that band so much. I really dig the dynamics between the singing voice and beautiful, memorable melodies and the harsh growling howls.

End part one.

Part two, the vents.
Things breaking frustrate me.
Today I came to work with two pressing things...well, one thing, actually. There were just two pages left in the magazine that were not turned in yet. Ads from advertisers. Both were turned in or uploaded onto two separate ftp sites over the weekend. One was on a record company ftp site, where I logged in, found it, and downloaded it. I've since placed it and "written it to post script," converted to a PDF file, and then ftp'd it to my printer's ftp site. The other file was a compressed (sitx) file, which my version of "Stuff It" would not open. Apparently, the version of stuff-it I purchased last year, maybe 1.5 years ago, needs upgrading, for current files being sent to me require an upgraded version. I remembered that I got a confirmation email from the ads designer, so I emailed him and asked for a .sit file, with which I was able to extract, place, convert, and will now send.

The second thing that is frustrating me is that I'm freezing inside my office. The heater here is just blowing air. Ay-yi-yi! It's cold!!! The thermometer I have next to my desk says 49 degrees!

Yikes! It's hard to work under these conditions. I have several other things on my plate I need to get done, but I have to devote energy and time and focus on fixing these things. I hate that.

End Part Two.

I just pressed the wrong button, deleting all that I'd just written in Part Three. This was enough to scream "NO!" to.

In Genesis 28 we see Isaac blessing Jacob again. This is interesting. You'd think that maybe the earlier blessing (where Jacob wore animal skin, trying to be like his hairy brother) would have been enough. I think there's something about this blessing stuff. Isaac blessed him specifically about finding a wife, and having his offspring blessed, passing down the covenant God made with Abraham.

I remember working at a Christian bookstore in Austin. I used to tell about everyone I served, "God bless you," as they went out the door. Some obviously appreciated it and "received" it, and others kind of nodded in acknowledgment. I am not sure what transacted there, but I believe that speaking blessings is a real and powerful thing. I don't go way out there and try to make more out of it than there is, but I believe God hears those things; and the people that "receive" it also receive something. I'm not sure what, but it's cool.

So Isaac went away to the land of his mother's family to find a wife. He sat down for the night and placed his head on a soft pillow. Scratch that -- it was a rock! He had a dream, where he saw a stairway reaching up to heaven, with angels going up and down it.

I wonder if he heard Robert Plant's voice and flute? Or perhaps Geddy Lee's voice, singing "Jacob's Ladder?"

Esau heard about this and finally figured out that his marrying Canaanite women displeased his father. So he went out and got some more wives -- this time from Ishmael's side of the family.

In Jacob's dream he heard the blessing again, reaffirming it in his heart. He dedicated that rock before he left and vowed to give God a tenth of all He gave him. This is interesting, because it is well before the Mosaic Law was given to God's people.

Posted by Doug Van Pelt at January 29, 2007 08:52 AM