Thursday, April 13, 2023

Anciety HiStory...




 "broken for ..."


"it's like you're speaking in parables..." -אִשָּׁה paraphrase [Matthew 21:32—Matthew 22:14]


For those of you who may not be as new to reading my blog, you may recall the account over a decade ago when I mentioned about the one specific bone in my body and only bone that has been fractured and surgically repaired thus far. In the photograph you will notice I have a ring of little monetary value placed upon the cover for a water bottle. I do this because in order to get the ring to be able to go onto my finger, it actually is a bit too large to fit onto the finger I need it to go onto and can sometimes slip off during vigorous activities.


A lot has happened in my life since then and when I look back on the event playing volleyball with some friends that allowed this fracture to occur it is also uncharteristic for me to also break it in this way given the numerous rounds of recreational volleyball I have played over the years. It just so happened I broke it at the beginning of the match too and just tried to volley the wrong serve in the wrong way. But it hurt, in more ways that I care to repeat myself repeatedly about and let's just say it might have a little something to do with the narrative in John 4: 

"Let's call her Samantha the Samaritan..." [Urbana Conference Speaker who felt it was not doing the biblical character justice that many  אִשָּׁה  often do not get their names written into the narrative]

In interest of time and I am also writing this for the audio input challenged to know the Word of my heavenly Father, I do not really have a specific end achievement to this entry. Other than it is like something one of my elders had said to me once, another paraphrase:


"He attends church every Sunday, because God loves this person..." [It's like a baptism]

...the next generation

Not sure who invented it, but presently, it has been a number of years ago now that I have heard someone express that "a generation is ...