Think You Understand Transgression?

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

When we aspire to overcome nature, we lose.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

Given a choice between a meeting and doing things around the house, I would normally choose the latter. The other day I didn’t have a choice. Meeting. But as it turned out, the meeting was more beneficial than staying at home would have been. I just never know when you will surprise me with grace and joy.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“Mister, you won’t believe what this popcorn ceiling will do for the resale value of this house.”

[Not exactly the kind of work He did before entering the ministry.]

D. Blog: Word of the Week – “transgression”

According to the Huffington Post,

“Tiger Woods' apology for his affair has caused a sensation -- but also, it seems, a whole lot of confusion over the meaning of the word ‘transgression.’

In the apology Woods posted to his website, he wrote:
‘I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.’

In the wake of his admission, ‘transgression’ and ‘transgression definition’ topped Google Trends as the most popular search terms in the US.”

In case Tiger’s vocabulary confuses you, too, wordnetweb.princeton.edu offers this definition:

- the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle; "the boy was punished for the transgressions of his father"
- the spreading of the sea over land as evidenced by the deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata
- the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit

[Sort of like going to war??]