It is 2 o'clock PM Friday afternoon here in Western Michigan. It is 34 degrees, rainy, cloudy and ugly today. I miss warm, sunny, blue sky days. I am tired so I need to get this chore completed so I can recover from existence. I got up this morning around 6:45 AM. When I came upstairs (I sleep down in the lower level of our home which opens out to a spacious backyard filled with trees and assorted plants) I found Carol getting ready to leave to meet a friend for breakfast and then go grocery shopping. After Carol left I ate breakfast, wrote in my paper diary, and read 'Ascent of Mount Carmel' by St. John of the Cross. I left to volunteer at the Book Nook around 9:35 AM. The Book Nook was not busy so I wandered the store and read from a book titled, 'Catherine of Siena: The Dialogue' [The Classics of Western Spirituality]. I bought these used books from the Book Nook today to ADD to my library- 'Iola Leroy or Shadows Uplifted' A Novel by Frances E.W. Harper 'Stony The Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, And The Rise Of Jim Crow' American history by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 'The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye In The Pyramid, The Golden Apple, & Leviathan' Science Fiction by Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson 'The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science' by Armand Marie Leroi Carol showed up to do her volunteer shift at 1:03 PM and I came home to wait it out. Tomorrow is a Saturday. Last night I read late into the night Mystical Theology and 17th cent. English Puritan Theology. I need to close to rest. 1006 L.M. Isaac Watts Christ our Wisdom and Righteousness. 1 Cor. 1. 30 1 Buried in shadows of the night, We lie till Christ restores the light; Wisdom descends to heal the blind, And chase the darkness of the mind. 2 Our guilty souls are drowned in tears, Till his atoning blood appears; Then we awake from deep distress, And sing, “The Lord our righteousness.” 3 Our very frame is mixed with sin; His Spirit makes our conscience clean; Such virtues from his sufferings flow, At once to cleanse and pardon too. 4 Jesus beholds where Satan reigns, Binding his slaves in heavy chains; He sets the prisoners free, and breaks The iron bondage from our necks. 5 Poor helpless worms in thee possess Grace, wisdom, power, and righteousness; Thou art our mighty All; may we Give our whole selves, O Lord, to thee.