PROSPERI-TEA!

Prosperi-TEA is NOT defined by the $$ in your bank account!

Whether you are sippin' your cuppa at The Empress in British Columbia, Canada or at My Cup of Tea in Orange Mound area in Memphis, TN.........

......remember it's not about who serves you but it's about whom you serve!

Choose this day whom you will serve as you sip your morning cuppa.

True prosperity-TEA comes to those who seek God first out of love and grad-TEA-tude for all he has given. 

The surest way to "prosper" in your endeavors is to diligently pursue the will of God. (Experiencing God, September 4)

MY CUP OF TEA

MY CUP OF TEA. A great idiom first used in Britain, of course. It's a an expression that typically presents a figurative, non-literal meaning.  If "My cup of tea" is representative of a negative it is preceded by not. As a positive "my cup of tea is indicative of one's preference, penchant, or propensity,

Of course when "not" precedes my cup of tea with a negative connotation, not my cup of tea seems a gentler way of expressing one's preference without the use of harsh or critical words.

MY CUPPA TEA---synonyms = affinity, choice/taste, druthers, orientation or preference,  

Even if something might not be your cup of tea, as a personal opinion , one can strive for unity over  any differences which are not areas of biblical perspicuity. Political parties. Pandemic protocol. Vaxx. Those are all negotiable.

• A gentle word turns away wrath but a harsh word stirs up anger. (Proverbs. 15:1) 
• Gentle words bring life and health.(not volume of one's voice or snide comments, DAL). perverseness breaks the spirit. (Proverbs. 15:4) 
• Gracious (kind) words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.  (Proverbs. 16:24, NIV)

Get together for a cuppa tea and discuss your differing cups of tea....or just agree to disagree in love.

Terrific Tuesdays

I know---it's Thursday but I've been running a little s-l-o-w this week on timely blog entries. A spring fever, of sorts......in a "fever" of lists and scheduling and planning and, and, and! Sarah Young calls it "fear that manifests itself in excessive planning." (Jesus Calling, 4/24)

But, thanks to the kindness of Nancy E. 2nd Presbyterian's 4/28 Terrific Tuesday luncheon was a much needed "perspective-lifter." (Jesus Calling, 4/26) To begin with, there was time for pre-lunch tea given by aproned ladies from My Cup of Tea, one of my favorite cuppas. 

After "tea and talk, a delightful salad plate was served by the WOC, Carolyn Weber, author of Surprised by Oxford, a favorite read for me in 2012. A bit of a book review was given in my 12/18/13 entry as I recalled liking it so much that I read the bulk of it in one weekend.
So-o-o-o to have Dr. Weber speaking at the luncheon, not only slowed me down for a bit but gave me lots of ongoing food for thought. 
Her presentation was entertaining as well as thought provoking. Her book references to TDH were funny as were the new acronym TBH (tall, bald and handsome) 
TIDBITS

• CD is an ambulatory thinker---she likes to walk and think
•  Life is fatal for all....but believers have hope for eternity with Him. 
• Architectural designs of old cathedrals had folks "looking up"---such looking up is much need today as many folks look down as they go about their own busyness! 
• Remember that unbelievers often have no God touchstone in their lives---no God frame of reference. 
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• It's important to live our lives as a walking Bible (Hannah W. Smith) as we might be the only Bible some people will ever see.

Weber is a true wordsmith, evident in both her writing and her speaking----digging deep into English literature & quoting from literary works of Donne & Sayers to poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. 
Hope to very soon set aside a "Terrific Tuesday" to read her Holy is the Day: Living in the Gift of the Present. Reading Carolyn Weber's works would add a "terrific" label to any day.