Book spine poetry: The Pilgrim's Progress

Jean has tagged me in a book spine poetry meme.  Ali had done some.  Here are some other examples.

And here's mine.  The top book is the title.

The Pilgrim's Progress

What am I doing here?
Please understand me,
Hard times.
Calm my anxious heart.
Stirrings of the soul,
Sometimes gladness,
Surprised by joy,
O love that will not let me go,
A fortunate life.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Now to tag some others.  Here are the rules.

• Create a book spine poem.
• Take a picture.
• Post it on your blog.
• Link back to this post.
• Tag another blogger, or two, or ten.

Tagging Matt, Rebecca, Ally, Jenny, Karen, Sharon, Amy, Sarah and Wendy.

And if there is anyone out there who doesn't have a blog but wants to have a go, feel free to send me your photo in an email and I will post it here for you.

Ten things that make me happy

The lovely Ali has tagged me.  The brief - to list ten things that make you happy.

1. Living life secure in the knowledge that Jesus died for me.  This glorious hope undergirds all else.

2. Sharing life with the three gorgeous people in this photo.

Being on holidays at the beach with them is pretty good too. 

3. Reading the Bible first thing in the morning, cup of steaming hot tea by my side, while the house is still quiet.  (The house is quiet but that doesn't mean everyone is still asleep.  Small people get to stay in their rooms until 7am and that is what makes this possible.)

4. Letters - writing them, sending them, receiving them.  Epistolary novels make me happy too.

5.  Speaking of books...reading, time to read and as of recent times, receiving a book in the post from The Book Depository.  (Gilead by Marilynne Robinson awaits me for holiday reading.  October can't come too quickly!)

6. Listening to this CD - especially the first disc.  Loudly if possible.  And singing along with it. 

7. Praying with other people.  Especially precious is time spent praying with my prayer triplet - a group of eight (counting is a small problem...but we are good at praying) who have been praying together in some formation or other depending on who is in town since 1997, at first weekly, then fortnightly and now monthly.  Always special.

8. Flowers.  Especially of the cottage garden variety.  Nice in a vase.  But even nicer in a garden.

9. Cups of tea shared with friends.

10.  Blogging.  And being tagged.  Thanks Ali!

What makes you happy?  I tag Sarah, Helen and Jean.

Apparently...

Coming out of holiday hibernation to let you know that apparently...

 

I write like
J. K. Rowling

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

That works for me.
Let me know who you write like if you do this too.

HT: Rebecca

What Genderanalyser Thinks of Church History

Genderanalyser has been doing the rounds for a while. How it works is that you type in your blog address at the Genderanalyser site and it decides whether the blog entered has been written by a man or a woman.

When I entered The Key to the Door this evening, this was the result.

We guess http://thekeytothedoor.blogspot.com is written by a man (52%), however it's quite gender neutral.

Interestingly, I ran Genderanalyser over the blog before the Athanasius post and look what they said then...

We guess http://thekeytothedoor.blogspot.com is written by a woman (54%), however it's quite gender neutral.

Athanasius seemed to make a big difference! Surely church history isn't the domain of men only!

Unfortunately Meredith...

Unfortunately, Meredith's Swedish debut quickly turned into something of a nightmare.

Curious?

What you do is type Unfortunately and your name in quotation marks and Google it. Here is the pick of over ten pages of possibilities for Unfortunately Meredith.

Unfortunately, Meredith didn’t finish this race due to a snow machine running into her team during the race (she is fine but one of her dogs faces surgery tomorrow for a fractured foot.)

Unfortunately, Meredith’s grandmother passed away, and all the plans had to be changed.

Unfortunately, Meredith's dog wasn't a pit bull or large breed animal.

Unfortunately, Meredith is dead, and nobody can do anything for her anymore.

Unfortunately, Meredith's marina doesn't cater to flyfishers, at least not yet.

Unfortunately, Meredith comes across as boring, selfish, and rude, especially during a dinner scene where she “accidentally” offends Thad and Patrick

Unfortunately, Meredith did not report standard deviations, so these differences could not be tested for significance.

Unfortunately Meredith was not cautious enough, and the terrible tragedy is just that.

Unfortunately, Meredith was not a good worker and took to drinking.

Unfortunately, Meredith has a lot of searching to do in order to make her life better.

Unfortunately, Meredith’s list of suspects is as short as the time Jayce may have to live.

Unfortunately, Meredith is on vacation for a few more days, so the report sits in her inbox until she returns and is able to catch up on her email.

Unfortunately, Meredith’s post doesn’t really make its rounds in photo circles.

Unfortunately, Meredith has had a series of problems obtaining, installing and updating Adobe.
 

Unfortunately, Meredith is quite wrong for this assignment.

Fortunately for the writer of this blog, I am not a character from "Grey's Anatomy" nor do I have Meredith as my surname, which accounts for most of these amusing/troubling possibilities. And for the record, I have never been to Sweden.