To Know Him hosts Know and Tell Friday and asks this week:

Question 1
What is your favorite fairy tale?

Beauty and the Beast. Not only does it have a happy ending (a lot of fairy tales don’t in their original form), but the symbolism is pretty clear. We first watched the Disney version when my middle son was pretty young, and he got even then that the prince was acting like a beast and that’s why he was portrayed as one.

 Question 2
If you could be guaranteed a spot on the reality show “Survivor”, would you go?

Nope! Nada. No way.

Question 3
Meanest thing you ever did to a sibling??? I know…. what kind of question is this 🙂

Ugh! I’m ashamed to say I hit one of my sisters — not when we were toddlers (though I probably did then, too) but when I was a teen-ager and old enough to know better. I don’t recall that I or any of my siblings (one brother, four sisters) ever got physical very often, but for some reason I did then, and I’ve regretted it ever since.

Question 4
Best Fashion Era… 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s or now…

Maybe this is displaying my lack of fashion sense, but I can’t recall specifics of fashion for any era except the 60s, and I wouldn’t call that the best. I have some idea of what the 40s and 50s were, too (I love the 40s styles). One day in a store I overheard a mom and daughter talking about the daughter’s dressing up like a “70s lady,” and I thought, “Huh? What was there distinctive about the 70s styles?” Maybe I’ll be educated by the other answers. 🙂

Question 5
Have you ever skipped to the end of a book before you finished reading the book? 

I did when I was younger, but that really does ruin the experience. Now sometimes I even cover the bottom of the page I am on with my hand so I don’t accidentally see an important piece of information too soon.

Bonus Questions (I found these questions through a website, and boy are these challenging…)
Question 6
What’s the most humanly impossible thing you will ask God to do this year?

Saving the souls of family members who at this point are totally uninterested and do not want to discuss it.

Question 7
What is one thing you could do this year to increase your enjoyment of God?

It’s my conviction that the Enemy will always try to sabotage our efforts to spend time with the Lord. Even when we get into the habit of regular times of devotions, we can breeze through them too quickly just to have them done or we can be unfocused. Of course, that’s not always the devil’s fault — too often it’s our own flesh. As I mentioned in this post recently, I want to spend more time beholding Him.

If you’d like to join in on Know and Tell Fridays, please do! Questions are posted at To Know Him usually on Thursday evenings.