A. Unabashed Pacifist:
Your war will just have to go on without me.
B. Unabashed Christian:
Holy One,
I greet you on another day of wonders and surprises. Even after the countless years of creation, you continue to delight and challenge us with change and newness. I wonder that we anthropomorphize and personalize you, but our minds are more at home with the concrete and particular, rather than the spiritual and universal. I am grateful that yo came in the form of a person and for shining through other persons so that we can know you despite our limitations. Today I am particularly thankful for knowing you in ways that deepen and broaden my vision of you, ways that push the limits of my words to express how vast, how awesome, how grand, how creative, how loving you are.
Amen
C. Un-quoting Jesus:
“How did the popcorn get on the ceiling?”
[Well we might wonder, but He never did.
D. Blog: Word of the Week - Wonky/Wonk
[From urbandictionary.com]:
“WONKY”
weird, whacked out, messed up, not working for no definable reason. Usually applied to technology.
"Dude, you have the wonkiest computer in the world. I walked through the room and it crashed."
[From merriam-webster.com]:
Etymology:
probably alteration of English dialect wankle, from Middle English wankel, from Old English wancol; akin to Old High German wankōn to totter (see “wench”)
Date: 1918
1British : Unsteady, Shaky
2chiefly British : Awry, Wrong
[And from the Online Etymology Dictionary]:
WONK
"overly studious person," 1954, Amer.Eng. student slang, popularized 1993 during Clinton administration in U.S.; perhaps a shortening of Brit. slang wonky "shaky, unreliable" (1919), which perhaps is from Ger. wankel- or from surviving dialectal words based on O.E. wancol "shaky, tottering" (see “wench”). Or perhaps a variant of Brit. Slang “wanker” (masturbator.) It was earlier British naval slang for "midshipman" (1929).
Saturday, March 28, 2009
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