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Bio: Verily Valerie

Valerie is a 42-year-old, single, Reformed Christian lady who lives in Baltimore. She doesn't remember a time before she knew and loved Jesus, but she does remember accepting John Calvin into her heart in March of 2000. Valerie is a member of Christ Reformed Evangelical Church in Annapolis.

Though her career aspiration is to be a housewife, Valerie has not yet found anyone suitable who wishes to hire her for employment in that field (or, more properly, anyone suitable has not found her), so in the meantime she earns her daily bread working in communications -- editing, writing, print design and website management.

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Sunday, March 21, 2010 AD

A Little Spring Cleaning
I was putting away several loads of laundry yesterday and decided to go through my odd sock stash. I ended up throwing away nine of them. It felt heartless. Why should these poor socks be discarded just because they had no mates? I only threw away the ones that were of sufficient vintage that I could be positive they really were unmatched. That didn't help. Oh, so it's only the old singles that are disposable...for which we should abandon all hope. I felt so cruel, so heartless, so devoid of compassion.

And then I remembered that they were just socks.
Posted by Valerie (Kyriosity) at 6:30 PM • Permalink Links to this post 4 comments


Tuesday, March 16, 2010 AD

If You Link to CyberHymnal, Change Your Link
Evidently, cyberhymnal.org was hacked a little over a year ago, and someone stole all of their content. They've rebuilt the site at hymntime.com. The thieves don't deserve your patronage, so change your links and bookmarks.
Posted by Valerie (Kyriosity) at 11:42 PM • Permalink Links to this post 3 comments


Friday, March 12, 2010 AD

Rules Were Made for the Writer, Not the Writer for the Rules
This quote is from a mathematician, but the sentiment is applicable to grammarians and editors:
Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in cases where it does not fit, is pedantry... To apply a rule with natural ease, with judgment, noticing the cases where it fits, and without ever letting the words of the rule obscure the purpose of the action or the opportunities of the situation, is mastery. -George Polya, professor of mathematics (1887-1985)
Posted by Valerie (Kyriosity) at 10:02 AM • Permalink Links to this post 1 comments


Wednesday, March 10, 2010 AD

And a Little Child Shall Lead Them
Some visitors to our church on Sunday had never drunk wine before. So when communion came, and they saw a tray with both cups of white stuff and cups of red stuff, they watched what the little children in front of them were taking and followed suit....
Posted by Valerie (Kyriosity) at 9:40 AM • Permalink Links to this post 5 comments


Why Fluorescent Lights Are Evil
On the drive in this morning, as my mind was coming up with a list of things to do, I jotted a few notes on my hand with the only color pen I had available -- yellow. Arriving at the office, I look at my hand under the fluorescent lights and can barely see that anything's there. Fluorescent light does terrible things to color. We hates it, we does.
Posted by Valerie (Kyriosity) at 9:17 AM • Permalink Links to this post 0 comments


Tuesday, March 9, 2010 AD

Annie Winham
One of The Annes
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Sunday, March 7, 2010 AD

Sisypha
Today's mythology lesson, boys and girls, is about the little-known character Sisypha (younger sister of the more popular Sisyphus), whom the gods punished by assigning her the task of perpetual dish washing. She was forced to wash dishes till she was sure she'd done them all...only to walk out of the kitchen and discover a bowl or a plate, a fork or a spoon, sitting forgotten in some other room. And there was always another one there each time she left the kitchen, no matter how carefully she'd checked the last time. Finally, after centuries had passed, everybody stopped believing in the Greek gods, and Sisypha, much to her relief, ceased to have existed.
Posted by Valerie (Kyriosity) at 8:15 AM • Permalink Links to this post 1 comments


Ten Years Ago Yesterday
On March 6, 2000, I was writing a post for the now-defunct Renewing Your Mind discussion forum on "Why I am Not a Calvinist." I was gonna show 'em, I was, why this predestination bizniss was all a bunch of hooey. And by gum, I was even going to open my Bible to prove it! Well, you might imagine what happened next. It's dangerous to play with sharp objects. When I opened my Bible, my argument got its head lopped off.

I found myself in Exodus 33:
Then Moses said, "Now show me your glory."

And the LORD said, "I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the LORD, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."
It struck me that God's predestining privilege was tied up in His own proclamation of His glory. I'd been convinced that the notion made God less glorious, but I couldn't explain this one away. "Oh, all right," was my attitude. "I'll swallow the TULIP bulb, but I'm not going to be happy about it!"

A couple weeks earlier, Mark Cary had started teaching through Ephesians on Sunday nights at CCF (Chapelgate's now-defunct singles ministry). I was miserable about it when he started, knowing that the first chapter was all about predestination.

I had signed up to do special music for one night early in that series, when he was still in the first chapter. My crankiness dissipated pretty quickly, because I wrote this song for the occasion. Here's a quick, one-take recording.

If I were writing it today, the tune would be much more upbeat, but at the time it reflected the quietness of a spirit that had finally stopped arguing with its Maker. The first time I posted the lyrics, Jamie Soles asked me if he could write a tune for it. I was a little too attached to it then to let him, but I'd probably say yes now.

Well, I'd better get moving and get ready to go worship the God whose once-despised sovereignty has become a delight to me!
Posted by Valerie (Kyriosity) at 6:21 AM • Permalink Links to this post 1 comments


Tuesday, March 2, 2010 AD

Blog Par-tay at Femina!
The Femina girls (Nancy, Heather, Bekah and Rachel) are throwing a blog party. So far about 80 readers have posted links to their online homes (or just introduced themselves). Here are a few:
  • Crystal shares her seamstressing and etsying adventures at Arrayed and Adorned. She's got a couple recent posts on baptismal outfits that are particularly fun.
  • Teri writes about her family (including her almost-five "paisley-eyed baby," her somewhat older pets, and a post on how to care for curly hair -- a mysterious topic for ol' spaghetti-headed me) at This Is Now.
  • Linda's psychedelically cheerful blog, Searching for Sunshine, invites readers into the rooms of her home as she shares wisdom gleaned from 22 years of marriage and mothering.
Posted by Valerie (Kyriosity) at 7:45 AM • Permalink Links to this post 3 comments



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