Today’s Thought

Widow to Widow

That is, DIL to MIL

I’ve heard portions (at least) of this said or sung at weddings, by the bride to her groom:

Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee:
for whither thou goest, I will go;
and where thou lodgest, I will lodge:
thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:

Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried:
the Lord do so to me, and more also,
if ought but death part thee and me.

Pretty touching stuff. And meaningful. And even appropriate.

But what if those words were said or sung at a wedding…by the bride…to her mother-in-law? 😯 Read it all

6 Things Most People Don’t Know About Me

Proceed with caution; you may get what you're not expecting.

Mark Roth partially bares his soleBefore my list, some questions:

  • Why do I think it important to announce them?
  • Why should anybody care to know?
  • What makes people do stuff like this?
  • What drives your interest?
  • Does this look like Facebook to you?

Do you still want to see my list of 11 things most people don’t know about me? Read it all

Why Mock Goody Two-Shoes?

Because your own deeds are substandard and your target's righteous?

Goody two-shoes? What does that mean?!

It must be something bad. Really, terribly bad. I’ve never heard anything positive about a goody two-shoes. I’ve never heard anyone aspire to being one. Obviously there’s no good in that kind of goody.

Goody two-shoes are mocked, derided, and scorned. They are held in contempt and as a standard of what not to be.

Why?

OK, after writing all that, I looked up the term and found these two helpful entries:

That helps. I’ve even met people like that. And people I thought were like that, but I discovered later my own weakness propelled me to a huge leap onto a wrong, unjust conclusion. Andrée over at World magazine experienced something similar: Read it all

What If George Weren’t Free?

Has he now atoned for killing Trayvon Martin?

So George Zimmerman helped save the lives of a family of four that was involved in a single-car accident.

Would those four people still be alive if . . .

  • Zimmerman’s trial were still in progress?
  • Trayvon had killed Zimmerman?
  • George had been found guilty?
  • George had driven on by?

Possibly.

After all, George wasn’t the only rescuer.

And God could have easily saved these people with one rescuer. Just like He could have provided someone else as the additional rescuer.

But let’s suppose that these people would have perished had George Zimmerman not participated in their rescue.

Does his rescue of them somehow atone for his killing of Trayvon Martin?

(PS: There’s something wrong with that last question.)

Above all, love God!
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