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November 01, 2006
Straight from God...
So, this morning I am reading the Bible and telling Alicia how I'm convinced that I'm utterly discouraged right now because I'm reading the book of Jeremiah.... and, well, it's just not that happy! But then, I look down at the book and am utterly amazed by what I read.
Let me preface this with the back story. Growing up, I had a bit of an unusual nickname, some may call it a term of endearment, given to me by my mother. You see, she always called me heifer. Now, some of you may utterly dismayed by this, knowing that a heifer is a female calf.... a baby cow. And, you may think that this has had severe psychological affects on me... that I have some complex about thinking I'm a cow or something. However, this is not so. I simply thought it was normal and commonly like to tell people of my unusual little nickname.
So, I just had been telling Alicia how utterly discouraging Jeremiah is, and looked back down at my Bible when all the other words just sort of disappeared and I read Jeremiah 46:20, the first phrase, "Egypt is a beautiful heifer..." Now, if you back up and rad the context I think God is talking about how He is going to bring an end to the Jews of Egypt... like fattened calves. But, I'm going with this, and completely disregarding context and I am choosing to claim that God told me that I was beautiful this morning. Beautiful Heifer, right? Must have been talking to me. I'm a big fan of Jeremiah. He's a great guy.
Posted by Angelina at 11:57 AM | Comments (2)