In reviewing the website/blog of clearthemurk.com, it would appear I haven’t written anything for THREE YEARS and a few months! Oh, my! In a few months, my wife and I will be moving into an Adult Independent Living apartment. This move should afford more time for writing in the blog and less time repairing things or playing on the computer [yes, it’s true. I play games on the computer].
My plans for myself are:

(1) Spend less time playing a computer game called “No Man’s Sky” in which you don’t win or complete an overarching game-centered goal. The game is all about the experience, and it has in it whatever you like in a game: exploring, trading, building, growing wealth, fighting, space travel. Whatever you like in a game, it’s there. If you like exploring planets, there are 18 quintillion planets to find and explore! That keeps one just too busy!

(2) Spend the 4-6 hours per blog it takes to write an entry or study, and actually write in the blogsite.

(3) Go through boxes of photographic slides to sort through them and have the pictures I want to keep transferred to a thumb drive. A part of this is to label the ones that I keep.

(4) Go through boxes and boxes of photographic prints that we have inherited from each of our deceased parents, some being 110 years old! The photographs, not our parents.

(5) Cannibalize some old computers I have and/or destroy the hard drives before donating them. Same with old cell phones.

(6) Exercise more. Much more. Between a sensitivity to heat and living in North Carolina as well as an array of pollen allergies from living here, I find it difficult to go outside. However, the apartment complex is big enough that I’ll be able to walk inside, plus it does have an exercise room with basic exercise equipment.

(7) Carry on with the business of living, such as paying bills, write letters and so on.

So when we get settled in our new living place – still in the same city – I will let you know through this blog.

Personal: I feel I have a responsibility to write in this blog as I try to present a perspective on the study of the Bible that is not dependent on one’s culture (be it societal, political or religious), and I may have a view that is not keeping with the views of what is culturally or politically popular at the time. My goal in the Bible Studies is to present information and perspectives according to what the readers understood at the time of the writing of that particular book or passage in the Bible, and how that understanding applies to our lives today. I also try to write in such a way that people for whom English is not their primary language will be able to understand what is written. I’m not sure today’s blog entirely fits that standard, but hopefully it does for the most part.

By the way, when you view the blog, “Clearthemurk.com“, I do not see who has looked at it or anyone’s identity. I do see, though, the country the reader is from. And I can tell you that readers from the entire world view this blog. This is for you, the reader – regardless of where you live – to understand some part of the Bible that interests you at the time or that will help you in your daily life. I am looking forward to resuming the blog, “Clearthemurk.com“, for your benefit, knowledge and understanding when my wife and I get settled.