Daily 5 - Day 104

Today's Daily "5":

1. Going over and over the scripture I'm working on memorizing using an audio bible in the translation I'm memorizing from, while I was driving to work this morning
2. Fighting through, and actually managing to have a good day
3. A phone message I left actually being returned (and resulting in booking a massage at a new and highly recommended massage therapist for a few weeks from now)
4. Dinner with a friend - chatting and catching up (penne giardiniera con pollo... mmm... so good too!)
   
5. Pondering Proverbs 25:29 in the New Living Translation (I'm still loving Proverbs)
6. Finding out I made the list of trusted babysitters - You really should take me up on it - I'd love to do it :)
7. a handful of peanut m&m's
8. getting out of the office for a bit of a walk at lunch
9. a mostly smooth day at work
10. wearing one of my current favorite tops to work - at least I'm warm and feel pretty in it all at once!
    

Beaten with a Stick

(perhaps, just in case you're all new here, I should mention that my sense of humor is, shall we say, sarcastic).

Okay, with that disclaimer aside, let me share the verse of scripture that has provided much amusement to me today. But first the story that goes with it.

When we were teenagers, my middle brother (who also has a wicked sense of humor) used to go around informing us that "stupid people should be beaten with a stick." If we questioned him, he would tell us, "It says so in the Bible."

I was thinking about that verse the other day, in the midst of a rather trying encounter with another person, and it made me smile. So last night I emailed him, hoping that he still knew the reference for what had, at one point, been his favorite verse. He came through this morning, sending me an email with the reference, and the appropriate version to find his favorite translation of the verse.

It's making me laugh as I again deal with some rather trying people today. (I think I'm developing an affinity for the practical wisdom of Proverbs. It's been speaking to me on far deeper levels than this amusement lately as well.)

Proverbs 10:13 (Contemporary English Version)
If you have good sense,
it will show when you speak.
But if you are stupid,
you will be beaten
with a stick.