Yesterday someone treated me kind of wanky. You know, they acted funky around me and then made me feel kinda unwelcome. We've all been there. We can't all agree. My husband pointed out to me, in so many words, that the problem was theirs, not mine. That I had a right to the opinions I had expressed to them that may or may not have led to the wanky.
DIRECTLY after that encounter, as I was passing that way anywho, I dove into the Lifeway store. I was thinking I would get a new devotional book. Or a new journal. Or a new Bible that included devotions. Or a new Bible that combined devotions AND journaling. I was pretty sure Lifeway would have whatEVAH I needed in this regard. As I browsed the stacks, studiously pushing down images of the 47,000 Bibles, devotional books and empty journals I already have at home, I had an original thought. What if, instead of purchasing a new Bible, (there are Bibles geared to everyone from teens to homeschooling moms to, I'm sure somewhere, tightrope walkers working overseas) I tried using the "Bible That Gets Read Daily" (I could convert one of my existing Bibles to this.) Or, another brilliant idea, how about I convert one of my designer-colored Bibles to "The Bible That Is Applied Daily After Being Studied Regularly"????????
I am in full-time, full-blown, mid-life crisis mode. No, I don't have a new sports car and YES, I am far too chicken for the plastic surgery route. Yes, I am also too lazy to get one of those stringy, muscles-only bodies. But I am reassessing purpose. The thing is, without my Bible, I have nothing to strain all of the possible activities I could engage in through to get to the meat of life. Let me log off so I can start converting my pink "Ladies Who Lunch" study Bible to the One That Gets Cracked Open Bible. Watch out, religious folk. I may just start doing (or not doing) all sorts of things that shock you.
DIRECTLY after that encounter, as I was passing that way anywho, I dove into the Lifeway store. I was thinking I would get a new devotional book. Or a new journal. Or a new Bible that included devotions. Or a new Bible that combined devotions AND journaling. I was pretty sure Lifeway would have whatEVAH I needed in this regard. As I browsed the stacks, studiously pushing down images of the 47,000 Bibles, devotional books and empty journals I already have at home, I had an original thought. What if, instead of purchasing a new Bible, (there are Bibles geared to everyone from teens to homeschooling moms to, I'm sure somewhere, tightrope walkers working overseas) I tried using the "Bible That Gets Read Daily" (I could convert one of my existing Bibles to this.) Or, another brilliant idea, how about I convert one of my designer-colored Bibles to "The Bible That Is Applied Daily After Being Studied Regularly"????????
I am in full-time, full-blown, mid-life crisis mode. No, I don't have a new sports car and YES, I am far too chicken for the plastic surgery route. Yes, I am also too lazy to get one of those stringy, muscles-only bodies. But I am reassessing purpose. The thing is, without my Bible, I have nothing to strain all of the possible activities I could engage in through to get to the meat of life. Let me log off so I can start converting my pink "Ladies Who Lunch" study Bible to the One That Gets Cracked Open Bible. Watch out, religious folk. I may just start doing (or not doing) all sorts of things that shock you.
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