"Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have. Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship. If you hoard a thing of blessing for yourself, it will turn into spiritual dry rot, as the manna did when it was hoarded [Exodus 16]. God will never let you hold a spiritual thing for yourself, it has to be given back to Him that he may make it a blessing to others."
- Oswald Chambers
Thursday, April 23, 2009
I put on a shirt and my pants. Why don't I put on my shirts and a pant?
I've heard that it's because "pant" refers to the pant leg, and there are two of those, hence the plural. Fair enough. So why don't we call our shirts "sleeves"?
I could handle putting on my sleeves and my pants. At least that's consistent.
And there is the added complication when discussing pajamas (I thought of this after posting the previous post): we don't call them pajama pants. At least we don't around here. They are called pajama bottoms.
But, darn it if we don't keep that plural. Pajama bottoms. I can put on my pajama bottoms all day long. But I can't put on my pajama tops.
English. It's weird.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
. . . that to replace the battery on a Chrysler Sebring*, you have to remove the wheel and the wheel-well cover.
That was some fun, today, I'll tell ya what.
* The Sebring is the car Michael drives on The Office. It's a convertible for people who can't afford convertibles. It was my present to my better half on her last significant decade-crossing birthday.
And the battery is located in the wheel-well, just so ya know . . .
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Do people who start almost every sentence with "To be honest . . ." or "Let me be honest with you . . ." make you nervous?
