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GOD DOESN\u2019T ALWAYS SHOW UP<\/span><\/h2>\n\nMost of the time, in my life, and in particular since 2018, God hasn\u2019t shown up.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nHe\u2019s there-here-everywhere, but most of the time, it\u2019s like He\u2019s walking around the house with socks on. He steps over the sleeping dogs, somehow moves down the hallway and through the rooms where the first steps of mine in the morning, reset the tile with my steps, their expansion and contraction causing a popping sound as they fall back into place.<\/div>\n<\/h3>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0My milk went too long<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\nMy plants I try to keep alive still die from the heat. The idiot on the road did not get hit with a bolt of lightning or my pretend machine gun in my trucks grill when I pushed the pretend fire button on my steering wheel. Friends and family still live a life of pain either from self-abuse or being victims of others who are flaking off their own issues with life and contaminating other good, loving, people. They\u2019ve stopped making white Asics and all they have in my size is black or something with a Coast Guard orange stripe.<\/div>\nThe milk in the refrigerator should have been finished four days ago, now it\u2019s turned, and I don\u2019t want to waste it so, well, you know.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nStill, He walks around as if He has socks on.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nThe world isn\u2019t helping.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A nice flood would do<\/span><\/h3>\nI guess I would like a flood. Its summer in Arizona and especially in Phoenix. A nice street flooding rain. Something so much it starts to lift your car. Not much. I don\u2019t want anyone to get hurt, but something to wash the dust of the months without it away. Something with lightning so I can smell the ozone. The fresh clean scent of ozone. Or is that wet asphalt? Dunno.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nStill, He seems to walk around and be in, well, socks.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWe all try to simplify Him. We have to put a face on Him. He has to walk around in socks, so we can identify with Him. I know He doesn\u2019t have a face\u2014a face which would include ears and ear hair. He doesn\u2019t have feet or arms. Neither will we, but that\u2019s how we relate to something we only have faith in, we\u2019ve never seen the other side of the veil. We start looking around for means of our own to deal with it all, sharpening our own stick around a dwindling campfire, the night before we are surely to get squashed, and not in a good way. Our anxiety rises, the noise gets louder, the drumbeats get closer and we need another Xanax or have to roll a fatty to make it to the end of watch.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2026out of no where<\/span><\/h3>\nBut then, out of seemingly nowhere, four words pop into my skull. \u201cBe still and know.\u201d It is part of a song, written a couple thousand years ago. And then, like on que in a play, my head pops up and the notes to the song, my song, begin to play. Yeah, that\u2019s right. I forgot those four words even existed.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nI realize, He is walking in socks for a reason, at least in my mind. He does it because he wants to be quiet in my house. He knows I like the quiet and dark, and He wants that for me. But He is never NOT there. Plus, I think He likes to be in socks, metaphorically speaking. He is always comfortable around me, I never disappoint him, or piss Him off. Neither do you. We can\u2019t. Hard to imagine after that drinking party you did last weekend on the 4th and then threw up on that farmer\u2019s goat. But it\u2019s true.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nI took this picture of Bella yesterday as we drove. Bob is behind her on the seat, doing the same thing. I couldn\u2019t get a shot of them both and this was the best I could do driving seventy miles an hour while steering with my knees, don\u2019t judge me. She is so relaxed with me she is asleep. Uncomfortable as it looks, she started to snore. They both did. Imagine believing in something so much, you are that confident in their actions.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nHuh.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nSo, just because you don\u2019t see, don\u2019t hear, doesn\u2019t mean He isn\u2019t there. 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Most of the time, in my life, and in particular since 2018, God hasn\u2019t shown up.<\/div>\n
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He\u2019s there-here-everywhere, but most of the time, it\u2019s like He\u2019s walking around the house with socks on. He steps over the sleeping dogs, somehow moves down the hallway and through the rooms where the first steps of mine in the morning, reset the tile with my steps, their expansion and contraction causing a popping sound as they fall back into place.<\/div>\n<\/h3>\n
<\/h3>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0My milk went too long<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\nMy plants I try to keep alive still die from the heat. The idiot on the road did not get hit with a bolt of lightning or my pretend machine gun in my trucks grill when I pushed the pretend fire button on my steering wheel. Friends and family still live a life of pain either from self-abuse or being victims of others who are flaking off their own issues with life and contaminating other good, loving, people. They\u2019ve stopped making white Asics and all they have in my size is black or something with a Coast Guard orange stripe.<\/div>\nThe milk in the refrigerator should have been finished four days ago, now it\u2019s turned, and I don\u2019t want to waste it so, well, you know.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nStill, He walks around as if He has socks on.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nThe world isn\u2019t helping.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A nice flood would do<\/span><\/h3>\nI guess I would like a flood. Its summer in Arizona and especially in Phoenix. A nice street flooding rain. Something so much it starts to lift your car. Not much. I don\u2019t want anyone to get hurt, but something to wash the dust of the months without it away. Something with lightning so I can smell the ozone. The fresh clean scent of ozone. Or is that wet asphalt? Dunno.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nStill, He seems to walk around and be in, well, socks.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWe all try to simplify Him. We have to put a face on Him. He has to walk around in socks, so we can identify with Him. I know He doesn\u2019t have a face\u2014a face which would include ears and ear hair. He doesn\u2019t have feet or arms. Neither will we, but that\u2019s how we relate to something we only have faith in, we\u2019ve never seen the other side of the veil. We start looking around for means of our own to deal with it all, sharpening our own stick around a dwindling campfire, the night before we are surely to get squashed, and not in a good way. Our anxiety rises, the noise gets louder, the drumbeats get closer and we need another Xanax or have to roll a fatty to make it to the end of watch.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2026out of no where<\/span><\/h3>\nBut then, out of seemingly nowhere, four words pop into my skull. \u201cBe still and know.\u201d It is part of a song, written a couple thousand years ago. And then, like on que in a play, my head pops up and the notes to the song, my song, begin to play. Yeah, that\u2019s right. I forgot those four words even existed.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nI realize, He is walking in socks for a reason, at least in my mind. He does it because he wants to be quiet in my house. He knows I like the quiet and dark, and He wants that for me. But He is never NOT there. Plus, I think He likes to be in socks, metaphorically speaking. He is always comfortable around me, I never disappoint him, or piss Him off. Neither do you. We can\u2019t. Hard to imagine after that drinking party you did last weekend on the 4th and then threw up on that farmer\u2019s goat. But it\u2019s true.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nI took this picture of Bella yesterday as we drove. Bob is behind her on the seat, doing the same thing. I couldn\u2019t get a shot of them both and this was the best I could do driving seventy miles an hour while steering with my knees, don\u2019t judge me. She is so relaxed with me she is asleep. Uncomfortable as it looks, she started to snore. They both did. Imagine believing in something so much, you are that confident in their actions.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nHuh.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nSo, just because you don\u2019t see, don\u2019t hear, doesn\u2019t mean He isn\u2019t there. It means He is, but He could just be in his favorite pair.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nHave a good day.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nhttp:\/\/www.markjwilliams.com\/people-are-asking\u2026.html<\/div>\n<\/div>\nwww.pateos.com\/blogs\/insideourgooeyminds\/about<\/div>\n<\/div>\nwww.markjwilliams.com<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GOD DOESN\u2019T ALWAYS SHOW UP Most of the time, in my life, and in particular since 2018, God hasn\u2019t shown up. He\u2019s there-here-everywhere, but most of the time, it\u2019s like He\u2019s walking around the house with socks on. 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My plants I try to keep alive still die from the heat. The idiot on the road did not get hit with a bolt of lightning or my pretend machine gun in my trucks grill when I pushed the pretend fire button on my steering wheel. Friends and family still live a life of pain either from self-abuse or being victims of others who are flaking off their own issues with life and contaminating other good, loving, people. They\u2019ve stopped making white Asics and all they have in my size is black or something with a Coast Guard orange stripe.<\/div>\n
The milk in the refrigerator should have been finished four days ago, now it\u2019s turned, and I don\u2019t want to waste it so, well, you know.<\/div>\n
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Still, He walks around as if He has socks on.<\/div>\n
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The world isn\u2019t helping.<\/div>\n
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\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A nice flood would do<\/span><\/h3>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A nice flood would do<\/span><\/h3>\nI guess I would like a flood. Its summer in Arizona and especially in Phoenix. A nice street flooding rain. Something so much it starts to lift your car. Not much. I don\u2019t want anyone to get hurt, but something to wash the dust of the months without it away. Something with lightning so I can smell the ozone. The fresh clean scent of ozone. Or is that wet asphalt? Dunno.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nStill, He seems to walk around and be in, well, socks.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWe all try to simplify Him. We have to put a face on Him. He has to walk around in socks, so we can identify with Him. I know He doesn\u2019t have a face\u2014a face which would include ears and ear hair. He doesn\u2019t have feet or arms. Neither will we, but that\u2019s how we relate to something we only have faith in, we\u2019ve never seen the other side of the veil. We start looking around for means of our own to deal with it all, sharpening our own stick around a dwindling campfire, the night before we are surely to get squashed, and not in a good way. Our anxiety rises, the noise gets louder, the drumbeats get closer and we need another Xanax or have to roll a fatty to make it to the end of watch.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2026out of no where<\/span><\/h3>\nBut then, out of seemingly nowhere, four words pop into my skull. \u201cBe still and know.\u201d It is part of a song, written a couple thousand years ago. And then, like on que in a play, my head pops up and the notes to the song, my song, begin to play. Yeah, that\u2019s right. I forgot those four words even existed.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nI realize, He is walking in socks for a reason, at least in my mind. He does it because he wants to be quiet in my house. He knows I like the quiet and dark, and He wants that for me. But He is never NOT there. Plus, I think He likes to be in socks, metaphorically speaking. He is always comfortable around me, I never disappoint him, or piss Him off. Neither do you. We can\u2019t. Hard to imagine after that drinking party you did last weekend on the 4th and then threw up on that farmer\u2019s goat. But it\u2019s true.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nI took this picture of Bella yesterday as we drove. Bob is behind her on the seat, doing the same thing. I couldn\u2019t get a shot of them both and this was the best I could do driving seventy miles an hour while steering with my knees, don\u2019t judge me. She is so relaxed with me she is asleep. Uncomfortable as it looks, she started to snore. They both did. Imagine believing in something so much, you are that confident in their actions.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nHuh.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nSo, just because you don\u2019t see, don\u2019t hear, doesn\u2019t mean He isn\u2019t there. It means He is, but He could just be in his favorite pair.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nHave a good day.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nhttp:\/\/www.markjwilliams.com\/people-are-asking\u2026.html<\/div>\n<\/div>\nwww.pateos.com\/blogs\/insideourgooeyminds\/about<\/div>\n<\/div>\nwww.markjwilliams.com<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GOD DOESN\u2019T ALWAYS SHOW UP Most of the time, in my life, and in particular since 2018, God hasn\u2019t shown up. He\u2019s there-here-everywhere, but most of the time, it\u2019s like He\u2019s walking around the house with socks on. He steps over the sleeping dogs, somehow moves down the hallway and through the rooms where the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4610,"featured_media":900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[300,438,106,450,342,177,338,50,1],"tags":[461,203,210,458],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engaging-with-god","category-enjoyment","category-give-thanks","category-god-allows-suffering","category-god-feeds-us","category-god-lifts-us","category-god-loves-us","category-gods-acceptance","category-uncategorized","tag-god-is-always","tag-god-is-with-us","tag-god-loves-us","tag-god-shows-up"],"yoast_head":"\n
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Still, He seems to walk around and be in, well, socks.<\/div>\n
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We all try to simplify Him. We have to put a face on Him. He has to walk around in socks, so we can identify with Him. I know He doesn\u2019t have a face\u2014a face which would include ears and ear hair. He doesn\u2019t have feet or arms. Neither will we, but that\u2019s how we relate to something we only have faith in, we\u2019ve never seen the other side of the veil. We start looking around for means of our own to deal with it all, sharpening our own stick around a dwindling campfire, the night before we are surely to get squashed, and not in a good way. Our anxiety rises, the noise gets louder, the drumbeats get closer and we need another Xanax or have to roll a fatty to make it to the end of watch.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2026out of no where<\/span><\/h3>\nBut then, out of seemingly nowhere, four words pop into my skull. \u201cBe still and know.\u201d It is part of a song, written a couple thousand years ago. And then, like on que in a play, my head pops up and the notes to the song, my song, begin to play. Yeah, that\u2019s right. I forgot those four words even existed.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nI realize, He is walking in socks for a reason, at least in my mind. He does it because he wants to be quiet in my house. He knows I like the quiet and dark, and He wants that for me. But He is never NOT there. Plus, I think He likes to be in socks, metaphorically speaking. He is always comfortable around me, I never disappoint him, or piss Him off. Neither do you. We can\u2019t. Hard to imagine after that drinking party you did last weekend on the 4th and then threw up on that farmer\u2019s goat. But it\u2019s true.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nI took this picture of Bella yesterday as we drove. Bob is behind her on the seat, doing the same thing. I couldn\u2019t get a shot of them both and this was the best I could do driving seventy miles an hour while steering with my knees, don\u2019t judge me. She is so relaxed with me she is asleep. Uncomfortable as it looks, she started to snore. They both did. Imagine believing in something so much, you are that confident in their actions.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nHuh.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nSo, just because you don\u2019t see, don\u2019t hear, doesn\u2019t mean He isn\u2019t there. It means He is, but He could just be in his favorite pair.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nHave a good day.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nhttp:\/\/www.markjwilliams.com\/people-are-asking\u2026.html<\/div>\n<\/div>\nwww.pateos.com\/blogs\/insideourgooeyminds\/about<\/div>\n<\/div>\nwww.markjwilliams.com<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GOD DOESN\u2019T ALWAYS SHOW UP Most of the time, in my life, and in particular since 2018, God hasn\u2019t shown up. He\u2019s there-here-everywhere, but most of the time, it\u2019s like He\u2019s walking around the house with socks on. He steps over the sleeping dogs, somehow moves down the hallway and through the rooms where the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4610,"featured_media":900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[300,438,106,450,342,177,338,50,1],"tags":[461,203,210,458],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engaging-with-god","category-enjoyment","category-give-thanks","category-god-allows-suffering","category-god-feeds-us","category-god-lifts-us","category-god-loves-us","category-gods-acceptance","category-uncategorized","tag-god-is-always","tag-god-is-with-us","tag-god-loves-us","tag-god-shows-up"],"yoast_head":"\n
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I realize, He is walking in socks for a reason, at least in my mind. He does it because he wants to be quiet in my house. He knows I like the quiet and dark, and He wants that for me. But He is never NOT there. Plus, I think He likes to be in socks, metaphorically speaking. He is always comfortable around me, I never disappoint him, or piss Him off. Neither do you. We can\u2019t. Hard to imagine after that drinking party you did last weekend on the 4th and then threw up on that farmer\u2019s goat. But it\u2019s true.<\/div>\n
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I took this picture of Bella yesterday as we drove. Bob is behind her on the seat, doing the same thing. I couldn\u2019t get a shot of them both and this was the best I could do driving seventy miles an hour while steering with my knees, don\u2019t judge me. She is so relaxed with me she is asleep. Uncomfortable as it looks, she started to snore. They both did. Imagine believing in something so much, you are that confident in their actions.<\/div>\n
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So, just because you don\u2019t see, don\u2019t hear, doesn\u2019t mean He isn\u2019t there. It means He is, but He could just be in his favorite pair.<\/div>\n
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