Musings From A Rolling Eyed Turtle

Naked. Worse, naked and exposed. Worse still, naked, exposed and vulnerable. When we are physically naked, at least in the context of when and where we should be clothed, we normally feel exposed and vulnerable and we try to cover ourselves.  Sometimes we are successful. When we are emotionally naked, at least in the contexts of when or where we shouldn’t be, we typically feel exposed and vulnerable and we work hard to try to cover ourselves.  Sometimes we are even successful. When we are spiritually naked, regardless of the context, we feel very exposed and vulnerable.  We desperately try to cover ourselves but there’s nothing we can do, on our own, to successfully clothe ourselves. That’s where God comes in.  But first, some context: From their very first realization of nakedness, Adam and Eve were afraid and tried to hide from God. While the account is one of experiencing physical nakedness, it goes beyond that since the root issue was that they had give...

Sometimes, as I am reading the Scriptures, it seems that a word just leaps off the page and I just can’t get it out of my mind.  One such word recently was “lavished”. Before I share some verses to see if it leaps off the page for you, it would probably be good to define the word itself.  Lavish is expending or bestowing profusely; expended or produced in abundance; marked by profusion or excess. I don’t know about you, but I think that when something is profuse, in abundance and in excess, it is not only noteworthy, but it could also be life changing!  So let’s look at some examples of how the word is used in the Scriptures:  “Even when they were in their kingdom and benefiting from your incredible goodness that you had lavish ed on them in the spacious and fertile land you had set before them, they did not serve you, nor did they turn from their evil practices.”  (Neh 9:35) “ In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our offenses...

As far as technology goes, I am, at best, a nominally functional user and at worse, a Luddite. Somewhat frustrating to me is that technology uses a lot of words that are not part of my normal vocabulary.  On top of that, they use a lot of abbreviations and acronyms. Once in a while I actually try to figure out what the letters stand for in a technology acronym.  Recently, I decided to find out what SIM stands for (as in SIM Card).  Here it is, according to Wikipedia: “A subscriber identity module or subscriber identification module (SIM), widely known as a SIM card, is an integrated circuit running a card operating system (COS) that is intended to securely store the international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) number and its related key, which are used to identify and authenticate subscribers on mobile telephony devices (such as mobile phones and computers).” Based on that, I kind of, sort of, understand what it is.  But the definition also ...