Q-tip

 

I heard a good acronym on the radio Monday: Q-tip: Quiet tongue in place.  Perfect.  How often do I think that I should speak to a topic when I should just keep Quiet on the topic?!  You have no idea how many times I have thought of something that I ‘needed’ to say about President Trump.  And you have no idea how many times that I have thought of something important that I ‘needed’ to say about former President Biden!  But in each case, I would have alienated half of my audience who really needed to hear about something from the dear Lord today!  Again, Q-tip.  James 1:19, “Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.”  Good advice, Brother James.  And your advice from the Lord was written 2,000 years before Q-tips were invented!

Accident

 

Last Thursday (July 17), I was driving south on Gunbarrel Rd. minding my own business when I was sideswiped by a young man coming from the center turn lane.  I must have been in his blind spot, because he ran right into me.  He was turning (across two lanes of traffic) into the gas station to use the bathroom, and I just happened to be in his way.  I was planning on going home and he was planning on going to the bathroom, but neither of us saw what was coming in our future.  Proverbs 16:33, “The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.”  He has a good insurance company, but only the dear Lord knows how much (or how little) his good insurance company will pay me for my 13-year-old car (with high mileage).  Refer to the verse above.  In either case, I’ll just have to trust the Lord.  So again, I’ll have to refer to the verse above.

Eyes, Ears

 

My cataract eye surgery has helped my hearing!  Oh, yes it has!  Let me explain: For some reason, I am losing hair on top of my head but growing hair in my nose and in my ears.  The only explanation that I can come up with is old age.  I lose hair where I don’t want to but grow hair where I don’t want to.  So, when I go to cardiac rehab, because of the extra hair in my ears, my earbuds fall out and I can’t hear my music.  But when I try to shave the hair in my ears, I can’t see because of my bifocal glasses.  When I turn my head to shave one ear, the opposite eye can’t see through the glasses.  And when I tip my head up to see out of the bifocals to shave my ear hair, my ear has moved (it is attached to my head, after all).  Very frustrating.  But with my cataract surgery, my eyes are improved, I don’t need to use glasses, and I can see the hair in my ear!  I can trim the hair out, and my earbuds stay in!  Eyes better; ears better.  Well, sort of … I can’t hear any better, but at least the earbuds stay in.  And for that, I am thankful.  As David said in I Chronicles 16:34, “O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.”