I’ve shaped this week’s prayer concerns to the T.
Tesla. My trips to K-Mart for affordable perfume were always confounded by the clerk’s use of the term musk in describing a fragrance. I had to look that one up. It is an element used in the making of perfume which is derived from glandular secretions in animals. That made me gag. What kind of stench is this? From where exactly does it secrete? The clerk then told me that this fragrance would give me a certain “élan” for life. Not speaking French, I had to look this one up as well. It means a vigorous enthusiasm. Well, there you have it. Perhaps this is why all these electric cars are burning. Who wants to drive a car invented by a “vigorous stench?”
Tacky. I have always viewed the White House’s annual Easter Egg Roll for children with a certain level of skepticism. This is a holiday about the resurrection, not rabbits and colored eggs! Nonetheless, I will not take away a wholesome activity created on behalf of children. After all, it’s merely a harmless gathering of American joy on the President’s front yard. You’ll understand, then, why I was aghast at the way this simple annual event has become a capitalistic money grab. Corporations can pay to sponsor this frivolity. Put your name over the front yard! Tacky. The event has historically been funded privately through the nonprofit American Egg Board, which also provides eggs for the event. This proves conclusively that our President’s promise to lower the price of eggs has not only come true but has caused even the American Egg Board to “just say no.” I’ll tell you this, if Tesla ends up sponsoring this event, somebody better paint up some rotten eggs. The smell of sulphur is preferable to animal secretions in my opinion!
Texts. I’d like to raise a phrase coined in 1969 in a book of the same title: The Peter Principle. This is a concept defined as “employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent.” When I first heard this phrase, I mistakenly assumed that it was a biblical trait based upon The Original Rock, Peter. Alas no, but I still was inspired by its meaning. In my church, I have witnessed long-time Sunday School teachers finally reach the point that they are ineffective at bringing salvation to eight-year-olds. I have seen missionaries sent home after proving their incompetence at saving the unchurched abroad. However, I never thought I’d see the Peter Principle at work in such high levels of government. Complete idiots are running too much of this country, and we have voted in men who are out of their element. Listen, I’ll be the first to admit the time that I “shared” a prayer request (about a fine Sister-in-Christ and her inability to win victory over her weight loss issues) in a group text, neglecting to leave said Sister-in-Christ OUT of the conversation. While she struggled with her spirit of forgiveness towards me, it was nothing that might incite war. But the White House has effectively become the Animal House with careless frat boys sharing government secrets to the media via group texts. I believe I’ll gather some important prayer warriors via the interwebs to address this concern. Does anyone have Hillary Clinton’s email?
