The Sesquipedalian Blog

Yes...I did just type that word.  Sesquipe-what?  Well in case you are wondering, dictionary.com defines sesquipedalian as:

"characterized by the use of long words"

Certainly more than once in my life I have been known to enjoy words and specifically uncommon words. I wouldn't have thought anything about all this except that today at church the pastor used some really cool words and phrases I thought I might share with you.  Thus, I have titled this blog: The Sesquipedalian Blog simply because it could be characterized by the use of long words.

1. Vivification.  He described it as developing virtues and good works.

2. Atrophy.  Its what happens to our muscles if they are unused--they shrink and are useless.

3. Intentional.  Not a new word to most of us, but a good one at that.  Its embracing action on purpose. 

Interested in big words?  Check out some of these:  ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM, FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION, HIPPOPOTMONSTROSESQUIPEDALIAN, and of course: SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS.

In other news:

I'm headed to Missouri this week to have spend some rocking-awesome time with the cool-cats in Area 3.  I had some flying issues today and got temporarily displaced in Chicago for the evening (surprise, surprise...its Chicago).  Not to fear tho, I'll be back on the road tomorrow!  I think this week is going to be spectacular!

Out of pure randomness...

Today at church we were asked to put name tags on.  Okay...just to give a little bit of background.  I have only been to this place a few times, just because we aren't in Indianapolis a lot on Sundays.  So...I decided to put down my name as Alex--for pure sake of having fun.  My pals next to me gave me the "look" (you know the one where you feel like you're in trouble--and I wanted to stick my tongue out at them back).  So immediately after I stuck it to my shirt, the lady next to me said, "Well Hi Alex, I'm Sally!" Then I almost immediately said, "Alex, who's that?  I'm Morgan."  But then I realized I had it on my name tag.  Thats the part of the story where I should have hit myself on the forehead and said, "Shoulda had a V-8."  Lesson learned: don't sit next to your friends at church! haha!  :)