(My Friday Show and Tell post is just below this one and my Ultimate Blog Party post is here.)

To Know Him hosts Know and Tell Friday, and we’d love to have you join us. The questions this week are:

 Question 1
What can you draw well?

No, not at all. My drawings look rather pre-schoolish.

Question 2
Name a TV show (at any period in your life) that you watched that you were probably a little too old to watch.

Besides the shows my kids watched? 🙂 I really can’t think of anything, though I am sure I probably did. We still love the Disney and Pixar animated films but I think those are geared to the whole family rather than just to kids. I’m not much for TV cartoons any more but I still love the one with Tom and Jerry’s antics to classical music — I think Tom is trying to conduct or play an instrument, I can’t remember, but Jerry comes along and havoc ensues. Maybe Tom plays the piano — I seem to remember Jerry hiding in one and running along the keys.

Question 3
What color is the dominant color of your wardrobe?

It depends on the season. In the winter there are a lot of blues, blacks and grays as backgrounds with florals mixed in. In the spring and summer I would say it’s predominately pink. And I wear my denim jumper year round.

Question 4
Favorite donut?

Krispy Kreme’s glazed when they’re hot and ready. 😛 One local grocery store also sells “Tiger Tails” in their bakery —  chocolate and regular glazed, twisted. Luscious!

Question 5
Wear painful shoes just because they are cute?

No!!! I am about as unfashionista as you can get and have foot and balance issues anyway. They have to be comfortable.

Bonus Questions
Question 6
Is there anything that you believe you do not believe God about?

I had to read that one over several times to make sure I understood it. There is a level in which I believe everything God says in His Word, but of course that is tested all the time. Probably the area where I struggle with it most is when something awful happens, particularly to little children. As much as I have read and studied and concluded about suffering and God’s purposes for it, I still struggle with His sovereignty and love and care when it happens. But we walk by faith, not by site or by feelings, and I have to go over and over those verses that assure that He has a purpose in everything and that all things will work together for good to those who love Him.

Question 7
In general, do you think it is ok to be frustrated with people?

Well — I think it is inevitable. We are all sinners, and our rough edges are going to jab into each other some times. I think it is what we do with it that’s key. Being frustrated with someone isn’t an excuse to blow up at them, act unkindly toward them, or carry a grudge against them. “Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye” (Colossians 3: 12-13). We need to remember that we likely frustrate other people often, too, and we need to treat them the way we would want to be treated if the tables were turned. I think we need to examine our reaction, too. Was it just “one of those things,” or was it, as it is all too often, a selfish reaction because someone impinged on something I wanted — my time or space or the way I wanted something done.

I had a roommate in college who would continually use my little hot pot that I used for heating water for instant coffee for her herbal tea — which she made with loose leaves and left as is when she was done, so that when I went to use it I had to clean all that gunk out. That was frustrating! And I don’t think it was wrong to feel frustrated. But the right way to handle it would have been to confront her (kindly) and ask her to clean it out when she was done instead of seething under the surface, which is what I tended to do instead because I hated confrontation. A few uncomfortable moments of confrontation would have saved all that frustration. On the other hand, if I get frustrated because someone is sitting in “my” favorite spot on the couch, and they know that’s where I like to sit when we’re in the family room, well, then, I just need to get over myself. 🙂 I do sometimes ask if I can sit there, though.