Satisfied Soul; Day314

Psa 107:8  Oh, that men would praise [and confess to] the Lord for His goodness and loving-kindness and His wonderful works to the children of men!
Psa 107:9  For He satisfies the longing soul and fills the hungry soul with good.

Satisfied Soul
I used to wake up depressed, sad, tired, no motivation, lost and always wondering what to do next or not what to do.  I read books (self help books) to find the truth of how to really satisfy my longings (now I read the Bible every morning, just a few verses to feed the soul).  I’ve tried meditation and it works for a while.  I’ve tried Aikido and it was fulfilling for some time but it never sinks in towards the soul satisfaction.  Then later, I discovered cycling and it was great for a while until I almost died when a car struck me from behind.  I love cycling most because it gives me freedom to go anywhere plus I can just cruise when I am tired.  My other favorite escapade was a solitude of 1 hour in Merida pantalan (pier) and just stare the sun as it goes up and listen to the waves splashing in the background (Merida-wait for me.. I’ll be there one day).  Then later I discovered swimming and began to love it.  There is something in the water that keeps me at peace and I can mostly enjoy the long distance swim and feel satisfied about life.  When I was still in the Army, it was the morning 3mile run that keeps me away from all the stress.  Then there was this longing of financial stability.  A few years back, me and my wife struggles in our finances and honestly we have to really work hard to get something or buy something and then we argue.  I remember the days when my term in Army was almost at the end and I have to transition to civilian life.  There were so many questions in my mind.  Where is the job? Where shall I start looking?  Where to raise our kids?  I still have a few questions in life that are left unanswered but I am not worried about it anymore.  I still have my day to day struggles but those don’t bother me anymore.

I know that I am not alone in my situation.  I’ve read it in FB all the time. People are not satisfied.  People are longing for something. People are searching. People are seeking something.  I am aware that people sometimes don’t really need to hear any advice or counsel. I don’t have a degree in psychology and I never went to a seminary or Bible college and all I have is a real life experience daily and I want to share this to all my friends (known and unknown) that there is a way to satisfy our soul and it is not in the physical realm (the things I mentioned above).  There is a spirit realm, we don’t see it but if you observe your surroundings, find time to feel it and open your spiritual eyes … then you will begin to see and experience it. 

Yesterday, while I was driving with Brent for his tennis practice, we saw an accident that was about to happen.  The light was yellow and there were 2 cars trying to beat the yellow light (50mph) and then the oncoming traffic was also trying to beat the yellow light but the problem was he was turning left.  I slowed down because I saw the caution light (me sometimes) and then we heard a very loud braking noise (tire squeak) but fortunately we did not hear a loud bang.  To me, something happened in the spirit realm in that particular moment (a spiritual intervention).  I’ve been in so many similar situations like that and somehow, there is always that protection over me.  They said that there are angels out there protecting us. Last night, I am 100% sure they were there to protect us. 

Step1 in Soul Satisfaction:
1. Start a personal relationship to God through Christ. Everything you do, just talk to Him.  Kinda’ funny at first but you will get used to it.  Use Him to guide you in your daily life, at work, relationship, job search etc.

MIT (Most Important Task)
1. 2.4Mile Swim
2. Log Parser script testing
3. Backup Hyper-V and Sharepoint

0000, Sleep
0100, Sleep
0200, Sleep
0300, Sleep
0400, Sleep
0500, Sleep
0600, Sleep
0700, Breakfast; journal;
0800, Drop off the kids
0900, 2.4Mile swim
1000, 2.4Mile swim
1100,
1200, Log Parser Script testing
1300, Log Parser Script testing
1400, Log Parser Script testing
1500, Pickup the kids
1600,
1700, Backup up Hyper-V
1800, Read one LEAN article – 5 Universal Laws of Gemba Management
1900,
2000,
2100,
2200,
2300,
2400, Sleep

LOOKING BACK – YESTERDAY
What went well?
It’s been a week now since I launch my Log Parser study.  I am learning slowly but the results are very promising.  I have not fully comprehend the mechanism of the tool but the potential is there.  Imagine troubleshooting a computer problem by just performing a remote query from one console and it gives you all the details in one tabulated result.  I’ve put together some of the examples that I’ve tested and it really works.  Imagine a search engine on any log files or any event logs from different client pc.  More on this later but here’s the SQL Queries that I am testing.
Tools:
Log Parser 2.2
Log Parser Lizard

Event Log Remote Query to multiple clients with all events except Information Events

SELECT EventLog, TimeGenerated, ComputerName, EventID, EventTypeName, SourceName, Message
FROM 
\\192.168.1.3\System, \\192.168.1.3\Application,
\\192.168.1.5\System, \\192.168.1.5\Application,
\\192.168.1.13\System, \\192.168.1.13\Application,
\\192.168.1.24\System, \\192.168.1.24\Application
WHERE EventTypeName NOT LIKE 'Information Event'
ORDER BY TimeGenerated DESC

Event Log Remote Query to multiple clients with all events occuring within 10 minutes

SELECT EventLog, TimeGenerated, ComputerName, EventID, EventTypeName, SourceName, Message
FROM 
\\192.168.1.3\System, \\192.168.1.3\Application,
\\192.168.1.5\System, \\192.168.1.5\Application,
\\192.168.1.13\System, \\192.168.1.13\Application,
\\192.168.1.24\System, \\192.168.1.24\Application
WHERE TimeGenerated >= TO_LOCALTIME( SUB( SYSTEM_TIMESTAMP(), TIMESTAMP( '10', 'mm' ) ) )
ORDER BY TimeGenerated DESC

2. I went out cycling yesterday for a planned 30mile bike ride.  At mile 20, my legs were still fresh and decided to go for the 45Mile loop of the Outlaw100 route.  Well, I did not bring enough food with me and suffered a loss of energy (bonked-when you ran out of gas, no more leg power) near the end of the 52 mile course.

3. 1Mile Swim while waiting for my son in his tennis practice.

What didn’t go so well?
1. Bonking on a 50mile bike ride.

What would you do differently next time?
1.
Conclusion:
1.