O One In Charge,
support us all workday long,
until the shadows lengthen,
and the evening comes,
when the online world is mostly unplugged,
the fever of blogging is over,
and our actual paid work is done.
Then, in your mercy,
grant our computers safe docking at home
and us a holy rest.
Amen.
Author: Sistertech
Psalm of the day
Psalm 66
[1] Shout for joy to The One In Charge, all the earth;
[2] sing the glory of the name of The One In Charge;
give glorious praise!
[3] Say to The One In Charge, How awesome are your deeds!
So great is your power that your enemies come cringing to you.
[4] All Internet users worship you
and sing praises to you;
they sing praises to your name. Selah
[5] Come and see what The One In Charge has done:
awesome are the deeds of The One In Charge toward end users.
[6] Into amazingly fast throughput did The One In Charge turn sluggish wireless service; so that we might download files with incredible speed.
Even there at the cafe did we rejoice in The One In Charge,
[7] who rules Internet providers by might forever,
whose eyes keep watch on the networks—
let not the rebellious service providers exalt themselves. Selah
[8] Bless The One In Charge, O peoples;
let the sound of praise be heard,
[9] who has kept our computers among the living
and has not let our Internet connections slip.
[10] For you, O One In Charge, have tested us;
you have tried us as silver is tried.
[11] You brought us into the net of committee meetings;
you laid a crushing burden on our backs;
[12] you let our supervisors ride over our heads;
we went through fire and through water;
yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance.
[13] I will come into your house with completed reports;
I will perform my vows to you,
[14] that which my lips uttered
and my mouth promised when I was up against a deadline.
[15] I will offer to you presentations of robust analysis,
with the scent of the sacrifice of random sampling;
I will make an offering of spreadsheets and flowcharts. Selah
[16] Come and hear, all you who fear The One In Charge,
and I will tell what The One In Charge has done for my soul.
[17] I cried to The One In Charge with my mouth,
and high praise was on my tongue.
[18] If I had cherished Microsoft Vista in my heart,
The One In Charge would not have listened.
[19] But truly The One In Charge has listened;
and attended to the voice of my prayer.
[20] Blessed be The One In Charge,
who has not rejected my prayer
nor removed a steadfast love from me!
A prayer for evening
Be present and protect us, O
One In Charge, through the
night, so that we who are
wearied by the changes and
chances of Fair Use Laws,
may rest in your eternal
changelessness.
Amen
A prayer for a New Year
Dear One In Charge,
You have brought us in safety to this new year: Preserve us and our tech devices with your mighty power, that we may not fall into sin, nor be overcome by phishing scams, spyware, viruses, or other adversities; and in all we do, direct us to the fulfilling of your purpose.
Amen.
A heart full of praise
Praise is good for the soul. It’s one of the best defraggers besides confession.
2.3 Te Deum
You are The One In Charge:
we praise you;
You are The One In Charge
of Cloud Computing:
we acclaim you;
You are the eternal one:
All applications worship
you.
To you all RSS feeds, all the
powers of search engines,
Google and Bing, sing in
endless praise:
Holy, holy, holy! The One In
Charge of PHP and Java.
Amen.
— from The Book of Uncommon Prayer
Psalm of the Day
Psalm 103
[1] Bless The One In Charge, O my computer,
and all that is within it,
bless the holy name of The One In Charge!
[2] Bless The One In Charge, O my hard disk,
and forget not all the benefits you receive,
[3] who forgives all your fragmentation,
who heals all your viruses,
[4] who redeems your fatal errors from the pit,
who crowns you with a speedy CPU,
[5] who satisfies you with good partitions
so that your RAM is refreshed like the eagle’s.
[6] The One in Charge works righteousness
and justice for all who are oppressed with old software.
[7] The ways of cloud computing were made know to Microsoft,
and the acts of The One In Charge to the people at Intel.
[8] The One In Charge is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
[9] The One In Charge will not always chide,
nor withhold anger forever.
[10] The One In Charge does not deal with us according to our sins,
nor repay us according to our iniquities.
Nicolaus Copernicus & Johannes Kepler
Nic and Mr. K are my favorite scientist saints. If you can believe it, there are some “haters” out there who blame Copernicus for the hubris some humans have. As I tell them, it is not Nic’s fault an individual thinks he or she is the center of the universe, rather than the Sun, let alone the Son!
Let us pray:
As the heavens declare thy glory, O One In Charge, and the firmware showeth thy handiwork, we bless thy Name for the gifts of knowledge and insight thou didst bestow upon Nicolaus Copernicus and Johannes Kepler; and we pray that thou wouldst continue to advance our understanding of thy cosmos and cyberspace, for our good and for thy glory. Amen.
Psalm of the Day
Psalm 8
[1] O One In Charge, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
[2] Out of the mouth of babes and infants,
you have established strength because of your foes,
to still the enemy and the avenger.
[3] When I look at your servers, the work of your fingers,
the mainframes and the super computers, which you have set in place,
[4] what are end users that you are mindful of us,
and our startups that you care for them?
[5] Yet you have made our IT entrepreneurs a little lower than the heavenly beings
and crowned them with glory and spectacular IPOs.
Just a drill
If Sistertech were the betting kind she would have urged folks not to bet on that May 21st “Judgment Day” deal. Not that she knew it wasn’t the Day. Gabe practices a lot so we do not take the sound of his trumpet to be a call to battle stations. Besides, every angel knows that no one knows when the real thing will happen. We do have drills, though. And that is how Sistertech approached May 21st. I had a squad standing by down at Google in case they had a meltdown due to all the searches for “rapture”, “time zone”, “apocalypse”, and “earthquake”. But they reported that everything was fairly quiet . Thanks be to The One In Charge.
As for that Camping fellow, I would not be surprised if he were sent camping…in a twinkling.
Psalm of the Day
Psalm 66
1 Shout for joy to The One In Charge, all the earth;
2 sing the glory of the name of The One In Charge;
give glorious praise!
3 Say to The One In Charge, How awesome are your deeds!
So great is your power that your enemies come cringing to you.
4 All Internet users worship you
and sing praises to you;
they sing praises to your name. Selah
5 Come and see what The One In Charge has done:
awesome are the deeds of The One In Charge toward end users.
6 Into amazingly fast throughput did The One In Charge turn sluggish wireless service; so that we might download files with incredible speed.
Even there at the cafe did we rejoice in The One In Charge,
7 who rules Internet providers by might forever,
whose eyes keep watch on the networks—
let not the rebellious service providers exalt themselves. Selah