Words...

that I have inadvertently learned while sitting/reading at my computer/internet all week supervising in-school suspension.

Synergy - The interaction of two or more agents or forces so that their combined effect is greater than the sum of their individual effects.

I'm thinking this could be the start of a useful pick-up line for guys. "Hey, I think there's some great synergy between us making us more useful for God together than apart!"

Lapidary - Characterized by an exactitude and extreme refinement that suggests gem cutting: a lapidary style; lapidary verse.

"Ya know, I'm mesmerized by your lapidary wit!"

I apologize if you didn't catch on to the lame sarcasm of my thoughts! On the other hand I really did see these words in articles and look up the definitions in the dictionary and thesaurus, purely for enjoyment's sake, because I'm a nerd like that.

Ah, the Sense of Anticipation

This is How I Feel Today

Every good gift is from above...

Anticipation and a spring in my step in honor of Friday...warm fuzzy feelings...beautiful weather...any friends want a hug?!?!

Surely Goodness

Psalm 31:19-24

How great is Your goodness,
Which You have stored up for those who fear You,
Which You have wrought for those who take refuge in You,
Before the sons of men!

You hide them in the secret place of Your presence
from the conspiracies of man;
You keep them secretly in a shelter
from the strife of tongues.

Blessed be the LORD,
For He has made marvelous His lovingkindness to me in a besieged city.

As for me, I said in my alarm,
"I am cut off from before Your eyes";
Nevertheless You heard the voice of my supplications
when I cried to You.

O love the LORD, all you His godly ones!
The LORD preserves the faithful
And fully recompenses the proud doer.

Be strong and let your heart take courage,
All you who hope in the LORD.

Stereotypes

...may be something we bring on ourselves, but...

While browsing some Christian blogs the other day, I randomly came across this book, Incompatibility: Grounds for a Great Marriage. Although I assume the material is helpful for adjusting to life with someone of the opposite gender, my concern lies with the cover photo! Who are we being forced to conclude is represented by the ostrich on the left? ; ) Actually I think it's quite funny and sometimes true...

The Clothes Pin

How much better it is
to carry wood to the fire
than to moan about your life.
How much better
to throw the garbage
onto the compost, or to pin the clean
sheet on the line
with a gray-brown wooden clothes pin!

Poet Jane Kenyon

Scaredy Squirrel

Scaredy Squirrel is very comfortable with his daily routine. His long list of fears keep him from leaving his tree, until the day he makes a flying leap into the unknown in an effort to recover his emergency kit, which fell into the bushes. From then on he includes one exhilarating leap into the unknown in his routine every day, along with eating, sleeping and playing dead.

I had to smile when I read this book and thought of how much I resist making changes in my daily patterns and routines. Here's to exercising faith in God's character every day, taking a "leap into the unknowns" of life. : )