VERSE OF THE DAY

As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother's womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.

—Ecclesiastes 11:5

Thoughts on Today's Verse...

I don't know. I don't know! That has to be one of the hardest phrases for us to use. But when thinking about God and his ways, that's really all we can say. What we know about God is only what he in his grace has chosen to reveal to us. He is the Mystery of mysteries. He is the supreme knowable Unknown. Yet what we do know of him, what he has revealed to us in Jesus, is not only mighty and awesome, but loving and merciful.

My Prayer...

To you, O Lord God, I can only offer my wonder and awe. When I consider the vastness of the universe in which our tiny blue planet spins its existence, I am humbled at your wonderfully complex and expansive soveriegnty. At the same time, Abba Father, I treasure your nearness. You are the good far above all I know, the God who transcends space and time, and also God my Father who is ever near. Thank you for being accessible but not penetrable, available but not controllable. I thank you and praise you in the name of Jesus. Amen.

WORD OF THE DAY

Word of the Day : May 11, 2018

otiose

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adjective OH-shee-ohss

Definition

1 : producing no useful result : futile

2 : being at leisure : idle

3 : lacking use or effect : functionless

Did You Know?

Otiose was first used in English in the late-18th century to describe things producing no useful result. By mid-19th century, it was being used in keeping with its Latin source otiosus, meaning "at leisure." There is also the noun form otiosity, which predates otiose by approximately three centuries. That noun is rarely found in writing today, but it makes an appearance on the occasional spelling bee word list.

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Examples

"Ever since I was seven years old, I have been collecting books and articles on the Great Flood, hoping to write the full account myself. David McCullough's The Johnstown Flood(1968) was so brilliant that it rendered my own ambition otiose." — Michael Novak, National Review, 4 June 2014

"He did not have the patience for otiose people like Gibson, whom he put in the same category as those rude reporters who continued to pester him daily with inane queries and ridiculous suggestions." — Godfrey Wray, Beyond Revenge, 2008

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VERSE OF THE DAY

Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

—Ephesians 4:32

Thoughts on Today's Verse...

Be kind and compassionate — two qualities that seem to be in short supply. Maybe it's because we hold up the wrong heroes. Unfortunately these two qualities are often seen as signs of weakness rather than strength. To forgive as God forgave us requires great courage and great strength. So let's be strong!

My Prayer...

Holy God, there is no way I can adequately thank you for sacrificing so much to forgive me. So this day, I pledge to be more like you: to share more of your kindness and grace with those who have wronged me. Today, I ask you to help me release my bitterness toward _____________ and I ask you to bless this person with your kindness and grace. By the power of Jesus' example I ask this. Amen.

SOURCE:https://www.verseoftheday.com/

QUOTE OF THE DAY

How Long Is Too Long When It Comes To Having Sex?

August 23, 2013  |  By Toya Sharee

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Take your pick from any memorable intense sex scene in a movie; Jason’s Lyric, Jungle Fever, and Unfaithful have a few of my favorites. If it were up to the scenes in these movies, they would have us all thinking that good sex includes trying all of the Kama Sutra positions and going at it for hours upon hours (possibly in a field of grass). Movies rarely account for those moments when you almost kill yourself by tripping out of your own underwear, or when the wet spot in the bed becomes kind of repulsive afterwards. But there’s one thing that annoys me the most that they won’t admit: Anything more than 20 minutes starts to get more tiring than fun. I know I am not the only one who has been caught trying to watch Breaking Amish over my boyfriend’s shoulder because he wore out his welcome ten minutes earlier.

We are so used to women running around talking about they don’t want a “one-minute man” that we never really made it clear that having sex for hours at a time is exhausting and can get downright uncomfortable if you’re distracted enough.  It could be because of men who are just plain bad in bed, social networking forcing our attention spans to become shorter and shorter, or unrealistic expectations women have because of Halle Berry begging Billy Bob to “make her feel good.”  But the truth is, sometimes short and sweet isn’t so bad and you just want the guy to wrap it up in more ways than one.

So what is the ideal duration for a single session? According to a survey noted by the UK’s Daily Mail, most couples were completely satisfied with anything between seven and 13 minutes when it came to a single encounter. When participants from both U.S. and Canada were asked to rate a range of times for sex that was “adequate, desirable, too short and too long,” anything over 13 minutes was rated “too long.”

When it comes to pleasure, it’s all about time management, folks.  The best encounters are a balance of 4play, passion, skill, intensity and an occasional head butt or “tooth toast” (you know, when you go to kiss and your teeth end up meeting before your lips do) just to break the tension.  Great sex doesn’t have to be epic every time or worthy of an NC-17 rating.  If you’re thinking you’re going to look like Zoe Saldana and feel like Janet Jackson every time you go to get it on, you’re setting yourself up for a fail. And if there’s one class that should be a piece of cake in life, it’s sex.

Not only do you run the risk for your mind to check out of encounters that run over the clock,  you can do some physical damage as well.  When a woman fails to get aroused, there’s a good chance that her lady parts will not produce enough lubrication, meaning that sex can become very painful very fast when partners begin to chafe in areas that they never thought they could. It’s nothing a little KY Jelly can’t fix, but what’s the point of going at it for hours at a time if you’re not enjoying yourself, or worse yet, if you’re uncomfortable? For men, about five percent of the population may experience delayed climax.  Sometimes this can be caused by having one Ciroc on the rocks too many, but when it happens on a regular basis, it could be a legitimate cause for concern.  Medications, anxiety, or previous sexual activity can all contribute to delayed climax.  Keep your expectations realistic. Fellas, if your goal is to give your girl the big “O,” keep in mind that most women don’t achieve it solely through vaginal penetration.

Sex should be about pleasure and intimacy, not proving a point about who can last the longest or your man bragging about “beating” anything up. Rough sex is one thing, but our parts were not meant to be pulverized, ladies.  Leave the marathons to House and Breaking Bad weekends spent with Netflix. Because rest assured fellas, if your 60+ thrusts are met with silence, there’s a good chance your girl is more into the idea of sleep than the work your putting in.

Toya Sharee is a community health educator and parenting education coordinator who has a  passion for helping young women build their self-esteem and make well-informed choices about their sexual health.  She also advocates for women’s reproductive rights and blogs about everything from beauty to love and relationships. Follow her on Twitter @TheTrueTSharee or visit her blog, Bullets and Blessings.  

pep talk

pep talk

noun

informal

1. a talk intended to make someone feel more courageous or enthusiastic.

   "I was to meet my editor for a pep talk"

Noble wife

A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies... She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.

—Proverbs 31:10 27-28

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day in court

my first day at court sucked tjo. happy that i proceeded so that I am be able to learn and get over my fear to address the court.

you are expected to know every single thing you have learned during your varsity years. my years of studying in varsity is a blurrrrrr.

costs, point in lime ayi no Lord I do not remember. read, read, read everyday and everything. that sad realisation that you need to read every single case law and Act there is in South Africa.

when do you sleep? uhm never. kwaaa Legally blonde and Ally Macbeal were my favourite movie and series. was convinced i wanted to be an attorney, now I am and its hard.

nothing worth having is easy they say. well they are not directors of a company, a mother of 2, a daughter, a business woman, a sister, a friend and a girlfriend all at the same time. 

nothing ever prepared me for the reality Nkosi yami ngi size hahaha. just like learning how to drive I remember how I used to shake and tremble, look at me now driving like i was born behind the wheel. only thought I would drive a manual, now she can handle an automatic as well. I can drive  a small car and a big car. it took some practise so who knows? maybe one day I can handle the Magistrate Court, the High Court and the Comstitutional Court.

i remember how i use to aspire to park a car by reverse like all the pro's i used to see growing up. i am doing it now. practice makes perfect! 

Home to roost

Chickens coming home to roost

Q From Judge George H Foster, Jr, Phoenix, Arizona: Can you explain the genesis of the phrase chickens coming home to roost?

A As a proverbial expression it’s half a millennium old.

The older fuller form was curses are like chickens; they always come home to roost, meaning that your offensive words or actions are likely at some point to rebound on you. The idea goes back to Chaucer, though he expressed it rather differently in The Parson’s Tale, around 1390, writing that curses are like “a bird that returns again to his own nest”.Various versions are recorded down the years, but chickens appeared on the scene only in the nineteenth century, in Robert Southey’s oriental epic poem The Curse of Kehama of 1810. The image of farm chickens going out to forage during the day but coming back to the safety of the hen-house at dusk would have been familiar to his readers. It’s easy to find examples from then on, such as the one in Roughing it in the Bush, Or, Life in Canada, by Susanna Moodie, of 1852: “The next time the old woman commences her reprobate conduct, tell her to hold her tongue, and mind her own business, for curses, like chickens, come home to roost.” That form is still common, mainly in North America.

During the nineteenth century, the proverb was abbreviated to its modern form. An early example was in the Wisconsin Patriot on 10 November 1855: “Barstow has always been a belter, and he need not complain to find his chickens coming home to roost.”

You can tell the expression had become widely known by the middle of the nineteenth century because it was abbreviated still further into the elliptical home to roost. James Russell Lowell wrote in 1870, “All our mistakes sooner or later surely come home to roost.” Sometimes this could lead to weird images, as in Mr Punch’s History of the Great War of 1919, in which a character claims that a man’s “wild oats are coming home to roost”. Other forms are known, such as curses come home to roost, which is in Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind.

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Lovely jacket.