The Dusty Scribe: Ancient Practices~A Slice of Life/redbubble

Jonah's Prayer

From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the LORD his God.
He said:
In my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me.
From the depths of the grave I called for help, and you listened to my cry.

You hurled me into the deep, into the very heart of the seas, and the currents swirled about me;
all your waves and breakers swept over me.

I said, 'I have been banished from your sight;
yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'

The engulfing waters threatened me, the deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.
To the roots of the mountains I sank down, the earth beneath barred me in forever.

But you brought my life up from the pit, O LORD my God.

When my life was ebbing away, I remembered you, LORD, and my prayer rose to you, to your holy temple.

Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs. But I, with a song of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to you. What I have vowed I will make good.

Salvation comes from the LORD.
And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

Friday, January 25, 2008

Ancient Practices~A Slice of Life/redbubble

I joined an interesting group. The outline of the group seems like it would/might be open to a subject that I am researching, which is the Ancient Art of Alchemy and the bakers who kneeded the dark art dough, Alchemist.

Personally, if I had a PHD degree in Chemistry, I would rather be called an Alchemist…but I don’t … I do posses an Associate of Science degree in, Bovine Feces, and am currently pursuing a BS in Linguistics :)

The first thing I feel I need to do is use the knife of curiosity to cut the history loaf into slices of time, putting each slice on a different tectonic plate. It is important to know because in some parts of the world, if you were caught or even accused of breaking the bread of Alchemy, you would be … toast.

Like a teacher of mine always said of a big task, “It’s like eating an elephant, you just have to eat a little at the time.”

I guess I will be eating elephant sandwiches for a while … at least I know what is for dinner … Got mayo?