My word for May 28th is PERIOD
I am not an English major. I do have many things on my teaching certificate, 1-6 elementary,
5-8 (math, science, history, English) and masters in reading, but to have a
degree in English I do not. I can
explain to anyone the in’s and out’s of reading, the origin and the tricks of
the trade, but if you ask me how to correct a whole term paper that would be
scary. I know the basics such as
the different sentence formations: simple, compound, complex, and compound
complex. I can explain the basic punctuation
devices, semicolon joins two complete sentences, colons are before a list, an
exclamation point is at the end of a sentence to show feelings of excitement, a
question mark is at the end of a sentence when the sentence asks a question and
a period means stop the sentence is finished. Other than these few things I would have to look it up or
ask an English major.
When you look at us you can say we are much like sentences
and punctuation. We can be simple.
Being simple we are just happy being here, nothing fancy. We can be compound having to always be
with another person. We can be
complex, a little difficult to understand or compound complex, very unique and
different from all the rest. We
can be as exciting as an exclamation point full of emotion or questioning
everything around us like a question mark. We may be like the period, making things stop, then moving
on. When we come to a period in
our reading we stop for a brief moment knowing that we are at the end of the
sentence. What we have gotten out
of that sentence is over. Past
sentences do help create the rest of the story. Those sentences may help us to define what we just read, but
the past sentences are over and done with.
God wants us to deal with our past much like a sentence with
a period, especially a past that is full of pain, hurt, and sadness. If you have come to a crossroads in
your life, you may need to ask yourself, where do I go now? God wants you to say, “It is time to
move on!” It is time to move past
the period of pain. Don’t question,
don’t get excited or anxious, move past the “pain period” to the future that
lies ahead. Just as the past
sentences make the whole story, our past helps make who we are in the
future. A future that is full of
possibilities. Don’t put a
question mark where God has put a period.
Move into the new beginning that God is creating for you; God has
something good in store for you.
Don’t be
afraid to keep moving on,
For what was before, now has gone,
God wants to
accomplish so much more,
But we need to move forward in the Lord.
© By M.S. Lowndes,
Based on Isaiah 43:18-19
Dear God
help us not to put a question mark where You have put a period. We know that our past, if full of pain,
will not do us any good to revisit.
Enable us to release the past and not dwell on it any longer. Assist us in not being bitter but being better during this
journey 2012.
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