Love encounters Hutzpah, Blargh, and Meh

The following are words I see, understand, and even use. But before I began reading blogs in this community – I didn’t even know they existed.

“Blargh”

“Meh”

“Gah”

“emoticon” 🙂

“Hawt”

and of course my very favorite…

Heart, used as a verb.

 

I heart heart, used as a verb.

I heart heart, used as a verb so much, that the names of these blogs were almost

I Heart Love

and

I Heart Scripture

Yes, yes they were.

I told my sister.

She replied, paraphrasing here, “Blargh! Meh! Gah!” 🙁

Well that was disconcerting,

and a little disappointing.

Because I had my heart set on “I Heart”.

Instead, what was an easy choice became a major burden. Because this was the night I had already decided to register my domain names. And the stuff I read told me that once you get a name,  register it like lightning. Because you don’t want to come up with a great name, wait until later – and – Gah – someone else took it in the meantime.

I decided it was time to bring God into the equation.

Funny, I waited until then. Hmmm.

It was about 2AM, I laid on the bed, closed my eyes, and asked for help. I told God I was gonna give him 10 minutes to help me out on this. I understood it was a tight deadline – told him sorry.

I realized after blabbing for a little – I was using up all of the minutes with me talking – and no listening. So He and I arranged for some roll over minutes.

Meaning –  I reset the timer on my phone.

I was serious about that time limit on God.

I think of this now – as I’m in the middle of blogging a series on prayer, that we have an awfully nice God.

I just gave the God of all things

a 10 minute time limit

to inspire me.

That’s Hutzpah!

I know from Hutzpah.

It was my first Semester in college. English Comp 101. Professor Kaminsky told us we could write about anything we wanted for our research paper…

except Religion.

I walked in for our first office appointment, some research already done, and writing, and showed him my topic…

“The Crucifixion of Jesus”.

Professor Kaminsky, by the way…

Jewish.

Yes, yes he was.

He told me I had Hutzpah.

I asked him what it was.

He told me to look it up (there was no Google back then). He handed me a dictionary. And there it was.

“unmitigated gall and brass”

I remember that definition clearly to this day – 406 years later.

Which brings me back to…

I gave God a 10 minute time limit to inspire me.

Yes, yes I did.

So I re-closed my eyes. And. just. shut. up.

God knew what I wanted. I didn’t need to be all wordy with him. I opened my mind. Through it ran “heart – heart – heart”, like little fuzzy lambs jumping over a fence. But I think that was because I really hearted heart.

Then came a funny looking lamb.

It was the word “deep”. “Hmmm I thought”

Deep into Scripture – Deep into Love.

And beeeeeeeep – the timer went off.

I hearted the new names. I registered them.

The next morning I told my sister, and she said, paraphrasing here,

“Those are Hawt!” 🙂

She continued, “If  you’re anything – it’s deep.”

I know my sister – it was only kind of a compliment.

I say all this to say this…

She also kids me about my “systems”. I had systems for studying, and for cleaning, and t.v. watching, and petting the cat – well – everything. So if she were reading this today she’d say something like – “I knew it – he’s got a prayer system.”

And I kinda do.

And I’m OK with that.

Just thought I’d share.

Tomorrow I put my Add riddled brain right back on track again.

Oooooh – wait – tomorrow is an Easter poem I’m writing.

No, that’s on Deep into Scripture.

Meh!

Tomorrow’s fine – “who art in heaven” is tomorrow.

In God’s love.