I love teaching university students. Many of them are highschoolers with grades high enough to take college classes for credit before graduating high school. They’re good students, but that doesn’t mean they don’t make occasional bloopers that teach me charming new details of history and brighten my days. One of my favorites is that when the children of Israel left Egypt for the Promised Land, they wandered forty years in the dessert! That explains why it took so long. They were busy choosing between Pie? Cake? Cookies? Baked Alaska? You name it— They walked slowly, choosing, eating and enjoying.
Did you know the French Revolution was caused by that nation’s pheasants rising up in revolt to fly against the crown? (They were bird-brained to think they could pull down the ruler’s next and replace it with their own.)
Another student explained that Italy’s Machiavelli wrote The Prince to gain support from the “Media Family.” That explains so much. Though Machiavelli wrote during the Renaissance, long-lasting, worldwide media effects are still with us.
After laughing, grading, and sending them helpful comments, I save these bloopers. I’m sure I can count on many more. And to top it off on a day when I had already exercised TWICE, one of my two sons sent me Isaiah 58:11 pointing out that if the Lord blesses us, our exercise and diet efforts may be in vain because— “… the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.”
Hmmmm. I’ll let you judge that conundrum. But tax day is past, and the future lies before us. May our days include joy and laughter as we go forward supporting and encouraging one another in our neighborhoods, cities, states, and nations until we bless and change the world. Love, Delores
If you like this blog, you might also enjoy Why Travel is in my DNA – June 27, 2023 and Jokes Make Us Better Storytellers – August 9, 2022
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