OK, well, I got the message God. Read Labels EXTREMELY carefully. I'll have more to say about this later. And, both of these meme's are very fun, and if you want to play along, just look for their buttons in the side bar.
Five Minute Friday for today is the word Messenger.
Here goes:
We all serve as messengers for others. Sometimes the things we communicate are dire, like," I have this gun pointed at you for a reason, and I am going to kill you if you don't do what I say." Hopefully we never have to face that message from another human being more than once in a lifetime, or never. Then there are the messengers from the Animal Kingdom, Like "You, stupid human, are between me and my baby, and I'm going to teach you a lesson before I eat out your liver."
Then there are little messages from God that we deliver ourselves. They come in the form of relating a dream, the Aboriginals of Australia call these Dreamtime messages, and people who ignore them do so at their peril. American natives - the REAL ones- also have this tradition, as do people who are truly seers among the rest of the population. I am one of the people who believes in dreams as messages, but who the messenger is is always a question. Is it my little amigdula which is always sending panic messages to the rest of my body? Or is it a wonderful, special guardian, who wants me to watch out for something. These are questions that will always exists for messengers who come in dreams. The messengers who come in the daylight, with maybe a smile and a nice comment about your 25 year old red coat, are surely people who are in it for the Joy. I like messengers who do these things. We are really all messengers for others so we should be careful about what messages we are sending. Fight or flight? Calm in the face of a storm? Kindness that is just a random thing that some folks have a gift for? But, my time is up!
Now for friday5:
Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!
NEXT WEEK is the third Friday in June, which I arbitrarily decided last year would be the annual Scattergories-inspired five questions, something I always enjoy reading your responses to. I’m excited. Come back next week if you think this week’s questions are lame, because boy: next week’s are going to be even lamer!
1. Roughly how many plastic shopping bags do you think are in your house right now, and which store is represented most by them?
There's about 20 in the bag holder, mostly from Michael's and JoAnn's. I've almost completely stopped shopping in retail stores so that little stash is not going to grow.
2. Roughly how many gift cards do you possess, and about how much are they worth in sum?
Gee, this is a shopping survey, isn't it? I have None but do buy them here and again for my sister and daughters occasionally.
3. What’s an aisle at your favorite grocery store or drugstore that you pretty much never walk down?
I only go into a small pharmacy. Since I don't have to shop for anything anymore, unless it's a thrift store, there is NO aisle I won't go down in a thrift store.
4. When you shop for groceries, are you most likely to grab a shopping cart or a shopping basket? How often do you grab neither?
In the less than 10 times I've had to go into a grocery store in the last few years, I only need a little basket. I did push a shopping cart around for my sister when I took her grocery shopping every Friday for a couple of years.
5. What was the last thing you purchased just in case?
Just in case I needed yet another cholesterol buster, I recently purchased a big box of a substance that I will not name here. Yes, we now get to the Header sentence in this post.
The Importance of Reading Labels Before Opening Large Boxes of Pharmaceuticals.
I went to the pharmacy to pick up a new medicine to try, one which my ever helpful doctor prescribed for me. WE got it home and not knowing that there was Aspartame in it, I opened it up, read the little packet, one of about fifty in the box, and saw the warning on the tiny packet. Why I did NOT see it on the BIG ECONOMY sized box, I'll never know. Anyway, don't ever hire me as a detective. It might get you killed.
Thanks for participating, and have a wonderful weekend!
Five Minute Friday for today is the word Messenger.
Here goes:
We all serve as messengers for others. Sometimes the things we communicate are dire, like," I have this gun pointed at you for a reason, and I am going to kill you if you don't do what I say." Hopefully we never have to face that message from another human being more than once in a lifetime, or never. Then there are the messengers from the Animal Kingdom, Like "You, stupid human, are between me and my baby, and I'm going to teach you a lesson before I eat out your liver."
Then there are little messages from God that we deliver ourselves. They come in the form of relating a dream, the Aboriginals of Australia call these Dreamtime messages, and people who ignore them do so at their peril. American natives - the REAL ones- also have this tradition, as do people who are truly seers among the rest of the population. I am one of the people who believes in dreams as messages, but who the messenger is is always a question. Is it my little amigdula which is always sending panic messages to the rest of my body? Or is it a wonderful, special guardian, who wants me to watch out for something. These are questions that will always exists for messengers who come in dreams. The messengers who come in the daylight, with maybe a smile and a nice comment about your 25 year old red coat, are surely people who are in it for the Joy. I like messengers who do these things. We are really all messengers for others so we should be careful about what messages we are sending. Fight or flight? Calm in the face of a storm? Kindness that is just a random thing that some folks have a gift for? But, my time is up!
Now for friday5:
Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!
NEXT WEEK is the third Friday in June, which I arbitrarily decided last year would be the annual Scattergories-inspired five questions, something I always enjoy reading your responses to. I’m excited. Come back next week if you think this week’s questions are lame, because boy: next week’s are going to be even lamer!
1. Roughly how many plastic shopping bags do you think are in your house right now, and which store is represented most by them?
There's about 20 in the bag holder, mostly from Michael's and JoAnn's. I've almost completely stopped shopping in retail stores so that little stash is not going to grow.
2. Roughly how many gift cards do you possess, and about how much are they worth in sum?
Gee, this is a shopping survey, isn't it? I have None but do buy them here and again for my sister and daughters occasionally.
3. What’s an aisle at your favorite grocery store or drugstore that you pretty much never walk down?
I only go into a small pharmacy. Since I don't have to shop for anything anymore, unless it's a thrift store, there is NO aisle I won't go down in a thrift store.
4. When you shop for groceries, are you most likely to grab a shopping cart or a shopping basket? How often do you grab neither?
In the less than 10 times I've had to go into a grocery store in the last few years, I only need a little basket. I did push a shopping cart around for my sister when I took her grocery shopping every Friday for a couple of years.
5. What was the last thing you purchased just in case?
Just in case I needed yet another cholesterol buster, I recently purchased a big box of a substance that I will not name here. Yes, we now get to the Header sentence in this post.
I went to the pharmacy to pick up a new medicine to try, one which my ever helpful doctor prescribed for me. WE got it home and not knowing that there was Aspartame in it, I opened it up, read the little packet, one of about fifty in the box, and saw the warning on the tiny packet. Why I did NOT see it on the BIG ECONOMY sized box, I'll never know. Anyway, don't ever hire me as a detective. It might get you killed.
Thanks for participating, and have a wonderful weekend!
Thank you for share it. You're right, we are all messengers so that's why we should be careful about the words that come out of our mouth
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome, Sandrax. I know that I became a lot more careful about what I say to people. It's hard to do because spontaneity is valued in a quick society like ours, but it's not always the right thing to do. Have a nice rest of the weekend!
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