Jenesis Lost?

07-07-07 came and went, and so where's Jenesis?

Sorry folks, Jenesis got delayed. I couldn't deliver.

I was trying my darndest hardest best to squeeze something tune out during my two weeks vacation in Greenland, but nothing came out of it. I wrote some words and I sketched out some pictures and that was it.

Naturally, I was disappointed. This was the first major project that I was to undertake after my wedding, and I messed it up. Messing it up was expected though. I didn't do much to make it come to pass.

In my disappointment, God showed me a vision of Genesis; how from nothingness He created everything and made the Earth and made man to populate the Earth. It was God's intention to create us from the very very beginning, but He did not create man first, then worry about where to put him. God created the paradise that man would live in, and every little thing that man had needed, every little thing that He had intended man to have dominion over before He even created man.

I had attempted to build my Adam without first building the Garden of Eden. I was very ill prepared to take on the task.

After consideration, I would attribute my failure to two major factors:
1 - Failure to have detailed plans
2 - Failure to act on my plans

I did plan to release the single waaaaay before my wedding even, so technically, I had about 7 months to write the song. I had plans to release the song on 7th of July, but I hadn't made detailed plans to execute the plan. I had not broken down the task into little milestone tasks to accomplish along the way, and I had not factored in the unplanned matters that had eaten up my time (eg. job changing, house maintenance etc).

I need to start taking actions, no matter how rough my plans are. Leaving everything til the last moment and hoping for something good to come out of it requires nothing short of a miracle and a tremendous amount of faith. :p I would really need to invest time and attention to pursuing the goal instead of hoping that I could somehow download a new song from God.

Fail to plan, plan to fail. I'll be making new plans for this and I'll make sure I break it down to manageable and measurable milestone. I will discuss the plans with June so she can be participate in it, and I can be accountable to her to make it come to pass.

We should make plans - counting on God to direct us. (Prov 16:9, TLB)