We had some discussion in The Master’s Table compound about this image Sunday evening. It looks like after the brain wakes up, the coffee mug hands him (or her) a crochet hook. Coffee has brought the brain back to life and now it’s crochet time? What do you think?
I think this is Happy Monday #556.
Continue readingCoincironical – adjective; a combination of the words coincidence and irony, used when you know it should be one or the other but are often told you are using irony wrong. Example: When I re-started the Master’s Table I said we would take it easy and probably not be doing the Satur-deja Vu and Happy Monday posts like we used to a regular basis then, coincironically, some weeks Satur-deja Vu and Happy Monday are all that gets posted. Last week I missed a Saturday post but it was a good day spent with family.
Family members and friends IRL know that my mother passed away a couple of months ago. She had a short struggle with ovarian cancer and spent just a few weeks on hospice care. Dad passed away 14 years ago and is buried at the Georgia National Cemetery near Canton, GA. This past Saturday, kind of a last minute thing with little planning, we met up with my brother and his family to view the newly cut head stone. I wrote lengthy obituary post for Lewis Bunch back in 2010 but after everything in May and June I was tired. My mush brain would hardly function well enough to do daily activities. When Dad was sick, Mom was his caregiver. It takes a visible toll on a person’s physical health to care for another person and manage a home at the same time. Teresa and I were in Kentucky back then and my brother Johnny did more than his fair share when Dad passed. So when Mom went on hospice care I was determined to be more available than I had been with Dad. Our immediate family had other things going on this summer as well but someone was with Mom during her hospital stay and then at her home at all times for several weeks. We made it work because that’s what you do for family. We were extremely blessed to have the support network of church members and extended family. The viewing and funeral turned into a reunion of sorts of old church friends, family and other close friends that we just don’t take the time to spend time with. At one point I stood in a small circle of my friends and realized a couple of them had never been in the same place at the same time.
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I am preaching through the book of Romans at Unity Baptist Church. As an aside let me say this: there is a long list of links in the RSS feed in the left-hand sidebar from our church website. The number of links to display is set at three (3) and always has been. One day it just started showing 10. I checked to see if the settings had changed and they had not. I changed the number to 10, updated my settings, went back into the design editor, changed it to three… and it still displays 10 posts, the maximum number allowed. At any rate, I am seven sermons into the Romans series and all of them are linked to the left of this post.
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If you don’t get it Google Yusuf Dikeç. You don’t have to watch the Olympics, just know your memes.
This is Happy Monday #554.
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As the summer games wind down, the United States may bring home the most medals since the epic 1984 Olympics in Los Angles. The US is projected to win 124 total medals but the race for gold is still a toss up between the US and China (as I write this on Friday evening). Here’s a recap of how the US has done over the last 40 years:
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The USA became the first country in modern Olympic history to reach the milestone of winning 3,000 medals on Tuesday. When the four swimmers shown above won silver, that put the total number of medals won at the 3,000 mark. At the Olympic Games in Paris the US has won 9 gold, 18 silver and 16 bronze medals; going into this week, accounting for all medals through the 2022 winter games, the US held 1,175 gold, 951 silver and 833 bronze. Considering all medals from all time gets kind of complicated as some nations have combined or separated over the years. The Soviet Union fell apart in the early 90’s while Germany was reunified. There is no other nation anywhere close to the US record but If you really want to get deep in the weeds there are multiple tables and explanations of how the data is represented on this page.
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That looks cooler than the Happy Monday truck. The driver probably has a real job though, we’re just a bunch of goof-offs and cut-ups over here.
This is Happy Monday #552.
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They don’t teach that in school – Every occupation will have things come up in the real world which the training program did not address. School teachers take courses in educational and developmental psychology but also know that bus monitor and lunchroom duty come with the territory. You went to school to learn the culinary arts but you may have to take a crash course in book keeping in order to pay your other employees. Just because you earned an MBA doesn’t mean you may never be called upon to unload pallets from a truck with a pallet jack. You may think that church pastors preach for an hour on Sunday morning then get paid to study the Bible 5 days a week. I hope no one thinks that but let’s be honest, some poor soul out there probably became a pastor thinking that was the job. Preaching sermons, leading Bible studies and counseling soon to be wed couples are what people see pastors doing. Sometimes, though, they are asked to break into parishioners homes (by the homeowner mind you) or take care of wildlife. Experience is the best teacher and I share some here.
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