This morning I get this swell email from mom:
Fyi my sweet offspring! This Sunday is ….. Ta-dah.! Mother’s Day! Love notes, poems and general declarations of love and devotion accepted- your only mother.
Now help me think of something nice and meaningful for my only mother on Mother’s Day.
This beautiful and amazing woman just had baby # 12 this morning. Marie, your incredible and your children are all so beautiful! 
Congratulations and welcome to the world Sonya Charlize!!
I’m trying to walk my talk and read my Bible more and so this morning I’m doing a Bible study on successful business principles from Proverbs. It’s a study insomuch as I take all the KJV verses and use BibleGateway to translate them into the New Living Translation and suddenly (whoa) I understand the verse and feel quite smug and scholarly.
So I come across Proverbs chapter 30 and stumble upon this shiny gem in verse 21:
There are three things that make the earth tremble— no, four it cannot endure:
1.) a slave who becomes a king
2.) an overbearing fool who prospers
3.) a bitter woman who finally gets a husband
4.) a servant girl who supplants her mistress
I have this funny feeling that this author was governed by a former slave, worked for a prosperous overbearing fool, married a bitter woman and had a crush on his servant girl. How the heck else do you conjure up a list like that? Poor guy…
Also, I think I need to work on my spiritual maturity levels if these are the kinds of lessons I draw from Word time. Heh.