ec·ze·ma [ ék'səmə ] an inflammation of the epidermis characterized by redness, itching, and the outbreak of crusty lesions that may leak fluid When I was young, the skin on my hands scaled so badly that while my palm was still raw, the layer below would start peeling — it was quite painful. I don’t remember how my hands healed. [...]
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Eczema
Posted in definitions, tagged Allegra, cream, Dove, eczema, makeup, ointment on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Himself
Posted in definitions, God, reprint, tagged ABSimpson on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
hymn by A.B. Simpson after a sermon with this excerpt: I once saw a picture of the Constitution of the United States, very skillfully engraved in copper plate, so that when you looked at it closely it was nothing more than a piece of writing, but when you looked at it at a distance, it was [...]
Weeping
Posted in death, definitions, romance, tagged Abraham, Sarah on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Old Testament has a lot of rituals for when someone dies, for resting, for celebrating (“appoint some to sing joyful songs”). Sometimes it’s just following the motions, but other times it helps structure personal emotions. What a sacred moment, when the Bible said that “Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep over her” [...]
Tentmaking
Posted in definitions, missions, tagged Aquila, CynthiaLay, Paul, Priscilla, Silky, tent on Saturday, February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Originally in the email that I read, this was going to be an English workshop. However, the speaker announced to us sitting in the room that he had decided he would speak in “Chinglish” instead. Cynthia was impressed that this white man who was born in Tennessee and went to college in California spoke so well. Speaking mostly [...]
Extremely well envoweled
Posted in definitions, reprint, tagged ASCII, beloved, Celtic, China, eel, England, Ireland, Latin, lemming, pigLatin, Wales, water on Thursday, February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
from http://www.isthisyour.name/name.php?forename=amy&surname=lee Top 5 Facts for this Name: 50% of the letters are vowels. Of one million first and last names we looked at, 2.2% have a higher vowel make-up. This means you are extremely well envoweled. In ASCII binary it is… 01000001 01101101 01111001 00100000 01001100 01100101 01100101 Backwards, it is Yma Eel… nice [...]
