Do you know what otiose means? …Yeah… I didn’t either until I read it on Ryan’s 6th grade short story for his English class. This kid is like digging for gold and finding the rarest jewel, shocks you every time. He had to write a short story on a crazy place to visit so he wrote about a make believe summer trip to ‘Africa’ to visit cousins.
….yeah…Anyway, within the story he says, “My otiose brother asked where an outlet was.” Within the story they are visiting cousins in a ‘hut’. So, OTIOSE means ‘lazy’ or ‘useless’. As I was reading this story I’m like, “What does that mean???” So I had to look it up on Dictionary.com. (Yes, I am a writer, no judgment please.)
When I asked him what it meant he gave me the correct meaning and said, “What? It’s not a bad word! It’s a word we use in English!” Then I found out it was one of his vocabulary words. However, do you know what this teaches me? That I am right when I say “I can never home school my kids!” Now you know why!!! My brain ‘leaked’ since I went to school and that information that was apparently very useful at the time has now been lost.
Does anyone feel me here? I look at their math homework and I’m praying silently, “Please God do not have them ask me what to do because I can barely remember what 6 x 4 is without counting on my fingers!!”
I think that might mean I am ‘otiose’. 🙂 I might use this word in my next book. 😉
Regardless of my otiose state, I’d be surmise to omit the fact that I’ve been on a high with God today. I’d been so concerned about a particular issue and I was praying diligently for the courage to just ‘put it in His hands’. When something is so important to you it is hard to relinquish the control but I knew that the only way it could be handled correctly was by having God take care of it. Besides, I knew He wouldn’t mess up. But it was still hard. It finally came down to the wire and I finally felt that ‘snap’ of the wire letting loose. It wasn’t mine anymore, it was God’s. Pretty much that very same moment a friend of mine said to me, “Oh, you know God has you. He is taking care of you, don’t worry.” And it was gone, I let it go.
That day. That VERY DAY. He showed me just how much He had it under control! W O W 🙂
My prayer was answered…but it wasn’t just answered in a way that I can take it and run. I realize that through this time of struggling and trying to relinquish that control on this particular issue that God was forming me, molding me, creating me even more into the knowledgeable young (ha ha ha) woman He needs me to be. I think He specifically drug this out till the lesson was scorched into my soul.
*sigh* (I’m so dramatic, I know) 🙂
Praise be to GOD!
Blessings
Shannon