{"id":31,"date":"2007-05-20T19:46:09","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T00:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.livingbythewordsofgod.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2007-05-20T19:46:09","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T00:46:09","slug":"one-with-my-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"One with my machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The mental state that the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi calls &#8220;flow&#8221; can be genuinely magical.\u00a0 There is nothing quite like the &#8220;deep enjoyment&#8221; of losing yourself in an experience, of becoming one with your work or hobby or sport (PC World Magazine, May 2007, Stephen Manes).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, Saturday I was in the &#8220;flow&#8221; at work.\u00a0 Blue sky, beautiful music, my new $400,000 Caterpillar loader and me, out in the field surrounded by more fields and trees.\u00a0 Even a young coyote came by for a brief visit.<\/p>\n<p>God has blessed me with a great job.\u00a0 No, I don&#8217;t need my graduate degree to operate a loader; it&#8217;s not a &#8220;position&#8221; but I don&#8217;t have to compromise my conscience, I am not trapped in the walls of a building and it pays the bills.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know that great feeling sometimes while cutting the grass at the house, and planting flowers or trimming trees, you know when it&#8217;s not a nuisance but a real appreciation for what you have and are a part of?\u00a0 Well, that&#8217;s kind of how my job is at times, Saturday was one of those times.<\/p>\n<p>Working by myself, fantastic surroundings, John Michael Talbot music.\u00a0 Just me alone with God and my thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Yi-Ha!\u00a0 Getting the area ready to work, doing my job and doing it well.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mental state that the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi calls &#8220;flow&#8221; can be genuinely magical.\u00a0 There is nothing quite like the &#8220;deep enjoyment&#8221; of losing yourself in an experience, of becoming one with your work or hobby or sport (PC World &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=31\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-spirituality-religion-truth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3dxA8-v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}