{"id":54,"date":"2006-08-16T19:51:39","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T02:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts-wp\/?p=54"},"modified":"2011-08-02T18:54:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T01:54:05","slug":"crossroad-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2006\/08\/crossroad-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"crossroad blues"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to the crossroad
\n     fell down on my knees
\nI went to the crossroad
\n     fell down on my knees
\nAsked the Lord above “Have mercy, now
\n     save poor Bob, if you please.”
\nMmmmm, standin’ at the crossroad
\n     I tried to flag a ride
\nStandin’ at the crossroad
\n     I tried to flag a ride
\nDidn’t nobody seem to know me, babe
\n     everybody pass me by
\nMmm, the sun goin’ down, boy
\n     dark gon’ catch me here
\noooo ooee eeee
\n     boy, dark gon’ catch me here
\nI haven’t got no lovin’ sweet woman that
\n     love and feel my care
\nYou can run, you can run
\n     tell my friend-boy Willie Brown
\nYou can run
\n     tell my friend-boy Willie Brown
\nLord, that I’m standin’ at the crossroad, babe
\n     I believe I’m sinkin’ down<\/em><\/p>\n

— Robert Johnson “Cross Road Blues (Take 2)”<\/p>\n

I am standing right at the crossroad right now.\u00a0 I need to fall down on my knees and ask the Lord, “Where oh where do I go now?”\u00a0 I feel lost, and I’m not sure how to find my way home.\u00a0 The paths that I know are in front of me are, the road to seminary and teaching English in Japan for at least a year.\u00a0 Other than that, its an unknown path.\u00a0 My ever precarious finances may make the Japan option a little more difficult.\u00a0 I’ll need to have about $2000 set aside to cover airfare and expenses when I first get over there.\u00a0 Which is of course about $2000 more than I have set aside in savings at the moment.\u00a0 The road to seminary feels like its a little impassable for the moment.\u00a0 Leaving just the unknown.<\/p>\n

I honestly don’t know what I am going to do, if not on the path towards seminary.\u00a0 The Japan option would just be a short detour on that path more than anything else.\u00a0 If I do deviate from the seminary path, then where do I go, what do I do?\u00a0 Do I stay in Portland?<\/p>\n

Right now, all I can do is fall down on my knees and listen for that still small voice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went to the crossroad      fell down on my knees I went to the crossroad      fell down on my knees Asked the Lord above “Have mercy, now      save poor Bob, if you please.” Mmmmm, standin’ at the crossroad      I tried to flag a ride Standin’ at the crossroad      I tried to flag a ride Didn’t … <\/p>\n

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