How I go about this blog

9 April 2013. My days of typing are over! I borrowed this incredible scanner from a friend. I call it incredible because it has the capability to scan to a word processor and present your document in rich text format (.rtf) that can be edited. The scanner is really amazing because it inserts paragraph marks appropriately and you only need to do minimal editing and then format to your desired style. I actually found an easier way to do the postings as I had hoped to.

The morale:

Determination and hope can surmount discouragement. And to think I overcame in 10 short days, a hurdle that would have made me to give up from the very first day!

Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.
Psalm 31:24

The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
Proverbs 10:28

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
Proverbs 13:12

It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD
Lamentations 3:26

Romans 5: 3 – 5
[3] And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
[4] And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
[5] And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Romans 8:24 -25
[24] For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
[25] But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

Romans 12:12
[12] Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

Romans 15:4
[4] For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

I Corinthians 9:10
Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.

1 Peter 1:13
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

One snag, though: the scanner is sheet-fed. The implication of this is that I have to get my Open Heavens book into single sheets to be able to use this incredible equipment. Presently, I do a photocopy of the 2-page spread, slit it in two and scan per page. That’s additional trouble and expense. I’m thinking of ‘dismembering’ my Open Heavens devotional (the book costs $5 if you buy from the main source as I did) into single sheets and using it for the scan. It’s much less trouble, and cheaper too, than making photocopies of it. Although, it leaves me with the guilt that I’m destroying value. I’m consoled, however by the fact that I will be creating better value out of it with these postings.

Another down side of the scanning method is that I don’t get to read the devotional in the process. With typing, I read along and that’s a great opportunity for me.

The morale:

I guess you can’t always have it all.

[8] For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
[9] And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
2 Corinthians 12:8 – 9.