An unexpected blessing

After we finished making final arrangements for Saturday's Unbound video seminar, we had an opportunity to pray for one another. I was so pleased! God provided exactly what I needed, again!

Today's pageview zip codes

Beverly Shores, IN  46301 
Chesterton, IN  46304
I'm betting this is an expensive area to live in . . .

Alone amid my musings

on the deserted island of my mind, and going nowhere.

Today's words

univocal /yoo-NIV-uh-kul/ - 1. having one meaning only  2. unambiguous

Today's WOTD. More below

equivocal /i-KWIV-uh-kul/ - 1. having two or more possible meanings  2. not easily understood or explained

Had I encountered these two words in the opposite order, I might have interpreted them both correctly. But my (mental) pronunciation error when I saw the WOTD as /,yoo-ni-VOH-kul/ led me to interpret it more in accordance with its obsolete meaning. That pronunciation continued over as I read the second word, which is actually a long-established member of my working vocabulary (along with its antonym, "unequivocal," which I now see has a shorter synonym) that I now misread as /,ee-kwih-VOH-kul/. The reader can probably see how I'd misinterpret, given that pronunciation, as referring to two equally strong voices. 

It's also pretty cool . . .

. . . when a former coworker for whom you served as a reference gets the job!

It's a good sign . . .

 . . . when the new pastoral associate for music ministry sacrifices a half hour of her first rehearsal so that we could pray a really awesome evensong together!

Today's word

phlegmatic /fleg-MAT-ik/ - 1. resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm  2. having or showing a slow and stolid temperament

I encounter this word fairly frequently, and every time I do I initially think that it means "sickly." Even when I remember that it's about temperament rather than health status, I rarely interpret it rightly. At least its own roots are just as confounding. 

The quotation in the second example disturbed me, initially. I thought that it fit my mood a little too well. Then I googled the source, and it turns out that almost every statement in the color test fits me to some degree, which makes it, in its generality and to the (article, not book) author's point, a little like every horoscope ever written.