Apologies...

Deer friends,
Pleas except my deepest apologies for my tardiness with publishing this issue....

Isn't it funny how changing a single word can confuse a topic? I (eye) love it. If you (ewe) read (reed) it out loud then you (ewe) hear (here) one (won) thing, but see (sea) another. Annoyed yet? Yeah. I (eye) know.(no) Me too. (two) (to)

Did you know that motion sickness happens when these weird little hair cells in your ears sense a different motion then what your eyes are seeing? I'm serious here. That's how it works.

I used to (do/dew) these grammar drills (where/wear) I had (to/two) cross out the incorrect homonym in sentence after sentence. It (would/wood) frustrate me to (tears/tiers) because the stream would (be/bee) endless, and I (knew/new) (which/witch) stupid word went (where/wear).

So...(sew) What's my point? Well...give me a minute.

No really, the point is that in life, over and over and over again, we'll have more than one signal that we're getting information from to confuse our decision and throw off our equilibrium. "Common sense" argues with advice, and advice contradicts scriptural principal, while emotion screams something entirely different from all the rest. So...what do we do? Who do we listen to?

Well, in Ecclesiastes, Solomon started thinking and couldn't stop. In my opinion, he was depressed. Everything was worthless. Life was worthless. Nothing he had ever done, no decision he had ever made was perfect, because he was just a man, and it was just vanity. But when it came down to it, he knew what had always mattered most, and what had never been a waste of time or a wrong decision was when he had chosen to "Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man."

Somehow, by recognizing this, Solomon found triumph, and saw that God had indeed worked "vanity" into beauty, because even in imperfection, fearing God and keeping His commandments had been profitable and would last. No, he couldn't live forever, no, he hadn't always been right, no, he hadn't always been balanced and no, people hadn't always thought he was sane, but God had blessed Solomon's acts of worship and obedience.

Fear God and keep His commandments. They're (their) always balanced, (they're/there) always proper, they always mean exactly what He intends them to mean. He won't mislead you.

God bless, deAr friends.

~Joanna Renae