IF YOU LIKE YOUR GOVERNMENT, YOU CAN KEEP IT?

You don't know hard it is to have sworn off political snarking at a time when hilarious chaos is bayoneting the survivors.
Metaphorically, of course. Actual bayoneting would be double nasty when millions are losing their health care.
Others will yammer on and on about this, so, as brevity is the soul of fine dry wit:
President Obama=bad.

Preaching From The _______ (plural)

¹⁴    “Issachar is a ______ donkey,     Lying down between the sheepfolds.

¹⁹So the LORD shifted the wind to a very ______ west wind which took up the locusts and drove them into the ^£Red Sea; not one locust was left in all the territory of Egypt.
 
¹³It came about when the sons of Israel became ______, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but they did not drive them out completely.

Enough of that. I've come to dislike 'fill in the blank' teaching, as I see it as ineffectual, and mostly a waste of paper. If we didn't know the answer before we filled in a blank, we won't know it again the second we've move on to the next. It might work better among first graders who are just learning words, but for adults it seems a lazy teaching tool.

Since I am already in _______, as in: " ³⁵When he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are among those who ______ me; for I have given my word to the LORD, and I cannot take it back.” ...
I hope that we will not next be going through Psalm 119 from Aleph to Tav. The words are pure and wonderful for personal meditation, but the similarities between the verses make for tough slogging if one tries to find something fresh and new to say about each and every verse. It is possible to get bogged down in minutia. Who would want to make Bible study boring?

Relent

Tentative-walking a fine line here. Troubled by years of interacting with someone who is Gospel hardened, a friend who might no longer see me as a friend.
Insecure people stand out like flashing neon signs on a dark night. An insecure Christian may swear
that he or she is fine, doing fine. Everything's fine. No problems here. Couldn't be better!
And those of us who know the symptoms and the signs shake our heads.
Here are a few signs:
1. A controlling personality.
    Someone who is insecure can work themselves to death trying to 'keep it all together', control all
situations; when confronted by something or someone they can't control, the controlling person gets nervous, feels threatened, uncomfortable.
2. Heavy lifting.
   An insecure person never is able to get over the feeling that they don't measure up, that they have to do twice as much, lift heavier burdens, take on more duties than everyone else. They generally only live to be overworked.
   Some others happily take advantage of an insecure person's 'need to do more'.
   It also becomes a self-fulfilling flagellation, feeding into the insecure person's belief that they
have to do everything or it won't get done. And they are just the martyr chosen to do it.
3. Perfection mask
   This one ranges far afield-it isn't a singular sign of the insecure, but they might have the market cornered.
Someone holding up the perfection mask is very careful not to make any serious mistakes; they fear being humbled, their poor self image demands that they never allow themselves to be seen as wrong.

I'm going to stop there for now.