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Please pray for my friend who has suffered an injury

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Hey all. WK here. I was wondering if you guys could take a moment for a friend of mine who is a deist. He was doing some constructive physical labor in a good cause, and he hurt his leg by accident.

Here are some points you may want to touch on in your praying.

  • that the injury is not to serious and doesn’t get any worse
  • that he has wisdom in knowing how best to handle the injury’s treatment
  • that his livelihood is not adversely impacted by the injury
  • that the treatment works and that his leg heals quickly
  • that he is patient and endures his suffering while maintaining his good character
  • that he receives care and compassion from the people around him
  • that God would use this difficult experience to draw my friend towards him

I wanted to post the Psalm that I have always turned to, as far back as my childhood.

Psalm 27

1 The LORD is my light and my salvation—
whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the stronghold of my life—
of whom shall I be afraid?

2 When the wicked advance against me
to devour me,
it is my enemies and my foes
who will stumble and fall.

3 Though an army besiege me,
my heart will not fear;
though war break out against me,
even then I will be confident.

4 One thing I ask from the LORD,
this only do I seek:
that I may dwell in the house of the LORD
all the days of my life,
to gaze on the beauty of the LORD
and to seek him in his temple.

5 For in the day of trouble
he will keep me safe in his dwelling;
he will hide me in the shelter of his sacred tent
and set me high upon a rock.

6 Then my head will be exalted
above the enemies who surround me;
at his sacred tent I will sacrifice with shouts of joy;
I will sing and make music to the LORD.

7 Hear my voice when I call, LORD;
be merciful to me and answer me.

8 My heart says of you, “Seek his face!”
Your face, LORD, I will seek.

9 Do not hide your face from me,
do not turn your servant away in anger;
you have been my helper.
Do not reject me or forsake me,
God my Savior.

10 Though my father and mother forsake me,
the LORD will receive me.

11 Teach me your way, LORD;
lead me in a straight path
because of my oppressors.

12 Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes,
for false witnesses rise up against me,
spouting malicious accusations.

13 I remain confident of this:
I will see the goodness of the LORD
in the land of the living.

14 Wait for the LORD;
be strong and take heart
and wait for the LORD.

Keep this one in mind when you are feeling down, but please pray for my friend today.

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Friday night video game music from Castlevania

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ECM thinks that I’m not crazy enough to post video game music like he does, but I am.

For those who want to read something good instead of listen to Friday Night Music, then you can read Binks’ round-up, which has news of Rifqa Bary, and of Maryam and Marzieh, the two women from Iran who have been in jail for their faith.

Castlevania: Curse of Darkness

Abandoned Castle

Eneomaos Machine Tower

Mortvia Aquaduct

Baljhet Mountains

Castlevania: Lament of Innocence

Dark Palace of Waterfalls

Garden Forgotten by Time

Leon’s Theme

Two Bonus Remixes

I like to put the top down and listen to Mortvia Aquaduct at night on long distance drive.

By the way, any of my regular readers can friend me on Facebook. I’m also on Skype! And I love to get e-mail, even though I am bad at replying to them sometimes.

Happy Friday!

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ECM’s new blog will document a 40-day water fast that begins today

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ECM has decided to start a new 40 day fast, and he made a new blog to record his progress. He’s quite a funny writer and you may want to bookmark the site and check in there once in a while to make sure that he is still alive. So far, he’s explained a little bit about it in the first few posts.

Here’s what’s on his menu for the next 40 days:

Consuming:

  • 1 gallon of H2O/day.
  • Beef/chicken bullion spiked w/ added salt 3-5x/day.
  • Body fat, muscle tissue and major organs all day, every day, until I run out and/or die from severe internal bleeding.

Not consuming:

  • Everything else.

You might think that he is fasting 40 days for Lent, but he’s a Deist, not a Christian, so he has other reasons for fasting.

Q: Why are you doing a 40-day fast?

A: A couple of reasons:

1. I ate way way way too much over the holidays (the holidays, loosely defined as Halloween ‘09 through, uh, this Sunday) and have a lot more to lose than normal. (Normal being 10-15lbs; right now, though, I’m competing w/ King Hippo for bragging rights.)

2. To prove that I can.

(Yes, that’s right: this is primarily a misguided effort at proving to myself that I can, indeed, go the distance come hell or high water (or pass a McDonald’s without succumbing to the siren song of special sauce).)

And here is a picture of ECM, pre-fast:

ECM (pre-fast)

You might think that this picture cannot be ECM, since he’s actually a beaver with a helmet.

Who is this?

But I think the beaver is actually just some video game character, and not really ECM.

Does anyone know the name of this beaver? I think it’s Sherbet or something.