Mature: fully or highly developed, perfected, worked out...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
"What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?"
A 40-something year old mom of two just about grown children. In my 25th year of a very happy marriage. Just started a new job as an assistant in the arts department of a pretty large (ok, really large) church. Now that my son left for college, an empty nester. Not grown up yet by a long shot.
Exodus 2:11 says “One day, after Moses had grown up…” The funny thing about that statement is according to the note in my NIV Study Bible, “He was now 40 years old.” 40 years old? And he was just then “grown up”? Webster’s defines an adult as “a man or woman who is fully grown up; a mature person”. I’m already moving into my 40's, so I’m firmly in the grown up category. Webster’s defines mature as being “fully or highly developed, perfected, worked out, considered, etc.” Hmmm…got some work to do there.
"The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness." Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
Other Blogs I enjoy:
To challenge your thinking about what it looks like to be a Jesus follower: Jesus Shaped Spirituality
For "Biblically conservative and culturally liberal" poetry, photos, & book discussions mixed with a love of coffee & basketball: bittersweetblue or his new blog: arieljvan.com
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