Low on the Go!

here's a new word for y'all.

anatiferous:
producing ducks.

apparently, from the 15th to 18th centuries, people thought barnacles living on logs in water spontaneously produced ducks. So, whenever a duck appeared, they would say that an anatiferous process had just occurred.

this is what i pay over 4000 bucks a year to learn in school.


speaking of school, the LORD is good. i am a person of little faith. scholastically, i had a really hard semester. it was as though my mind was everywhere, and there was no place to study at home. when i got my midterm exam marks, they were the lowest marks i have ever gotten in university. This made me really stressed out over finals. i couldn't afford to fail any exams, or i would've failed my courses, and would have had to spend another semester in school. But, praise God, because i've gotten all my marks back, and not only did i pass..but my marks skyrocketed. Sure, if you take a look at them, i'm no einstein...but they were definitely undeserved.
i'm ashamed that i didn't believe God could provide for me.
at the core, i am such a person of little faith. not only am i a person of little faith, i am also a very cynical person. i constantly doubt God, displaying an unwarranted distrust in His goodness and grace. i get so tied up in my own sin that i tell myself that it isn't possible for God to forgive me once more. What an untruth!

for Christmas, my mum bought me a Holga. This is a "toy" camera from the 1980s which is fully plastic, including the lens. because of imperfections in the lens and in its structure, it allows light and dust to leak in, producing distortions in the resulting picture.
sometimes, it is so easy to allow our own lenses to distort the picture. How easy is it to let our feelings of guilt, cynicism, shame, happiness alter our perceptions of God. Perhaps this is what Jeremiah meant when he said that the heart is deceitful above all things. indeed, our sin is notorious for distorting what is good. we constantly fall prey to unrighteously distorting and suppressing the truth.

the only solution to this discolouration, of course, is Jesus and the cross. Thank God that He has revealed Himself to us through His Word. it is wonderful and amazing and a beautiful source of Truth. Praise God that it dispels any lies or untruths that we sometimes create or glean from others.


All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work. ~ 2 Tim 3:16-17