(My Friday Show and Tell post is just below this one)

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

Question 1
(In honor of my best fwend today…. she has been so ill 😦 How often do you get real sick?

Not real often: maybe one or two good colds a year.

Question 2
Do you usually send serious or humorous greeting cards? Why?

It just depends — on the occasion, the person, the frame of mind I am in when shopping, and most importantly, what’s available. As I look through the variety of cards I choose whichever one seems to fit the best. However, I do send more humorous cards than I used to. Some of the serious, sentimental ones go way over the top. Plus I think maybe I’ve lightened up a bit over the years. 🙂

Question 3
Are you a person who has a whole lot of acquaintances, or just a few very close friends?

I have both, I think. If you have just a few close friends, everyone else will be an acquaintance. 😀 But all through life I have had just a few close friends rather than a “group.”

Question 4
If you could cure a disease, or heal a sickness, which one would you choose?

That would be hard. Cancer comes to mind first because it is so devastating and pervasive, but many of my relatives struggle with heart disease and my mother battled diabetes. I’m glad I don’t have to make those decisions.

Bonus Questions
Question 5
What does “being spiritual” mean to you?

A couple of verses come to mind: “For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace” (Romans 8:5-6) and “that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter” (Romans 7:6b). To me a spiritual person is one who doesn’t just live by lists of dos and don’ts (though such lists are important) and who doesn’t just go through the motions, but he or she is one who has a loving relationship with the Savior and wants to please Him in everything. But I know in the world sometimes being spiritual is thought to be kind of a nebulous and inexact thing and applied to any “religious” act or feeling, though they would spurn the word “religious.” I look at it this way: if I act towards my husband in love, I am not just experiencing warm but foggy feelings towards him: rather, I seek out what he likes and try prepare the foods and buy the brands he likes, etc. I try to avoid things he doesn’t like, from rutabagas to loudness and chaos in the house. To me it is the same in our relationship with the Lord — we seek out what pleases Him and what doesn’t, we “mind the things of the Spirit,” we serve “in newness of spirit.” It’s not that special feelings aren’t there, but they’re not entirely reliable.

Question 6
Imagine you were talking to someone who did not believe in God and Jesus… How would you explain to them that Jesus is Real (from your experiences in your own life)?

I would be inclined to go more towards things like evidences in nature, fulfilled prophecy, etc., but if I were to speak from my own life, I would point to times of answered prayer, times God gave me something specific that I needed from His Word, or times I definitely saw the Lord intervene — some of those kinds of things I wrote about in a previous post about “God’s thumbprints.”