“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when we practice to deceive.”
“I am a little girl and I have a little curl, right in the middle of my forehead. When I am good, I am very, very good, but when I am bad I am horrid.”
In todays world we are being told that life has been nothing but a word game. Words that we are or have been familiar with have been or are being changed in the dictionary, Wikipedia, Google, where ever…as I write this.
Is it being done with the purpose to deceive people all over the world? Do your own research to find out what the word ‘deceive’ means. I am as confused as you who are reading this…especially if you are familiar with what is going on behind the scenes all over the world.
The second quote, above, is one I was assigned to say as a line in a play when I was 5 years old. What do you suppose that meant? As a five year old, I had no idea, except that maybe there was good and bad in the world. Back then good and bad were taken for granted. As a child did we really know what those two words meant? Not unless you were taught, and I mean by your parents – I don’t mean by the teachers in school.
I was attending kindergarten in a Catholic school at the time. If we did something the teacher thought was bad – but we didn’t, we were spanked on a body part with a ruler, supposedly to teach us a lesson. I was taking piano lessons at the time at the same school from the same teacher. She was always hitting me on the knuckles of my hands, telling me that I wasn’t holding them right. As a 5 year old might think, did that mean I was ‘bad’?
Over the years, I have watched with great intent how folks who play the piano hold their hands. Most of them hold them the same way I did back then. So what was I doing wrong? As a young child I soon came to believe I was a ‘horrid’ person, and I had no idea what that word meant. All I remember now is that in my mind, I could never be a ‘horrid’ person ever again. Was I stigmatized for life?
Today, you could call that ‘stressed’. What does stress do to a person? It ruins the well being of a person’s health both mentally and physically.
WORDS! You have heard said: “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never harm me.” REALLY?
This could become a huge blog…with many a differing of opinions. Luckily, eventually, I figured out the meaning of words, lots of words – to the point where as an adult in the working world, when I had time on my hands, I read and studied the dictionary. Maybe that is why I write a blog? I keep wanting to quit, but GOD doesn’t seem to want me to.
I will end with the word ‘courage’. I call it that, but the poem or saying written by Mary Ellen Stelling, calls it as follows:
DARE TO BE LONELY
“Have the courage to be lonely!
Walk sometimes in mist and rain,
Stand and watch a brilliant sunset,
Stoop to see a child’s domain.
Shun the marketplace of life,
Do not gallop with the pack;
Prefer to stand upon a hilltop
And let the storm beat on your back.
Think your thoughts, keep your counsel,
Let the herd run where it will.
Have the courage to be different,
Have the bravery to stand still and
Listen to that distant music
None but the lonely heart may heed.
Then from this dream of solitude
Find a solution for every need.”
“ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE WITH GOD.” (Mark 10:27)
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