What Do I Know

Hey - I know things!

• 2 + 2 = 4. Time-tested and proven.
• If I drop a pan of fully cooked lasagna, it will end up on the floor in short order (not a pun).
• We need water to survive, so drink up. 

There’s a place for using the words, “I know!” But in my opinion, we seemingly accept a brutalization of this word in our daily conversations. Like the well-used word love, the definitions have been watered down to a point where both words (love and know) have begun to warp. The words mean less than the combination of letters that make them up.  

I think we all know those 3 examples listed above are true. 

Justice Served

A car on the 65 miles-per-hour freeway blows past as if you were walking.  Weaving in and out of traffic you lose sight of him.  Three miles down the road, flashing blue and red lights allow you to see the culprit sitting on the side of the road, window down while a trooper is furiously writing in a ticket-book.

It’s over, the final exam complete.  Across the aisle, sits that one guy who has copied and plagiarized his way through assignments and weekly lectures, assuming he showed up at all.  But, the final was a surprise.  It wasn’t a memory test at all – it was an essay.  If you didn’t know the concepts, you weren’t going to pass.  The slacker didn’t know the concepts.

A co-worker, recognized as being very political, throws people under the bus in a manner less hobby than business strategy.  She’s successfully crawled up the ladder with innuendo, misinformation and manipulation.  When they announce the new Vice-president of sales, you expect to hear her name – that’s just the way things happen.  But today, this position has been filled by someone you know to be a person of honor and integrity with a deep seated attitude of caring. Smugly, you look across the room at your co-worker.  That look on her face?  Priceless!

Winter Storm Warning

I stopped in the grocery store Friday afternoon for just a couple of things.  I did not stay.

It was somewhere between 1:30 and 2PM when I drove into the lot.  Puzzled because there seemed to be no place to park, I made the aisle rounds and eventually was able to direct the nose of the vehicle into a vacancy at the far end of the property. 

I didn’t stay because it was evident that the few items sought would not be worth the wait.  Again, I wondered at the crowds.  It took a couple of seconds for enlightenment.  Cincinnati was under a Winter-storm warning beginning at 4AM Saturday morning.  The warning would be in effect until 7AM Sunday morning.

Judgment

We all judge.  We're told not to. We're told again and again in various ways.  

Bible Study Tools  provides 37 verses to look at if we're even mildly curious.

And yet, we fail.  

Well, I do anyway.  

And the Crowd Went Wild

I shouldn’t be bringing this up yet, but fall is just around the corner.  We’ve got a lot of nice days coming, don’t worry.  But as school begins and as the leaves start to turn (for some of us) and as the average temperatures start dropping, another thing happens.

Football.

I’m admitting that I’m not someone who spends every Sunday watching, cheering and vicariously living “the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat” (Jim McKay) but I do on occasion peek at the standings and listen to others discuss these very things.

A few years ago, one of the things on the tongue of every football fan (and perhaps still remains an emotional discourse) was THE day of Blair Walsh.

From Sports Illustrated:

Blame the Brain

You know what to do.

I am better than you!

Even imagining a time when speaking those words to another is difficult.  That just isn't something that should be said - ever!

Growing up, I remember hearing about Pharisees.  To my young mind, these guys were self-serving and arrogant.  They held themselves up as entitled, all-knowing, it's-all-about-the-rules-kinds of people.

And I thought, "I don't ever want to be a Pharisee."

Just by recognizing my Pharisee phobia, I can't give myself a pat on the back, though.

I am better than you!