Feb
18
I do love a good word game. One of my favorites is where you take a phrase (or big long word) and see how many little words you can make out of it.
For example: ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM (a word I used to spell really fast when I was a kid because I thought it made me cool)
You can make words like: tarnish, militant, table, raiment, trash, marla.
Some ladies at my church threw me a bridal shower way back in the day, and we played the game using:
MARLA RACHELLE TAVIANO
Oh, the fun you can have making words like evict, chair, latch, hell, alarm, teller, ovarian.
Or how about this one? Rearrange the letters in MOTHER-IN-LAW to spell WOMAN HITLER. Of course this does not apply AT ALL to my own mother-in-law, and the funny thing is, my brother-in-law Tug (the son of my mother-in-law) is the one who told me about this outrageous palindrome in the first place.
Anyway.
So, because the winter weather is driving me nutso, and because I’m in some sort of lackadaisical slump, let’s liven things up around here by playing a word game together.
I’m going to choose a phrase/sentence I especially need to internalize today. Maybe you do too.
Let’s see how many words we can make from
TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART.
Ready? Set. Go!
dental
I don’t have the brain power for this today! But it looks fun!
That ok! I do, I do remember mine.
Literally
Nostril
Donuts
(I always did this with my high school students on holidays, like Groundhog Day. I’d give them five minutes and bonus points to the student with the most words. Love, love words and letters and properly used punctuation marks. You, Marla, are a word nerd, too. I love that!)
TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART
whole – your WHOLE heart
lean – LEAN on Him
start – START today
let – LET go
now – do it NOW
roll – it’s more than a ROLL of the dice; He’s trustworthy
thrill – and then you get to experience the THRILL of it all
Ok, my brain hurts! But I feel encouraged!
trust in the Lord with all your heart:
to do what the head tells you “no”
ok, I think those all came from the verse!! but sometimes my head tells me one thing when I know I have to “trust in the Lord with all my heart!!”
FUN STUFF!
Trust in the Lord with all your heart
(I went with names)
Tori
Triston
Sandi
Teresa
Tania
Sindi
Lisa
Shelli
ok I have to stop or will be ahere all day. This is my kind of fun!
AKat–Hubby accidentally deleted your other comment (they were camping out in my spam folder). So sorry your brilliance went to waste! Love you!
I immediately saw “our art” then I thought, “It’s our art to trust the Lord with all our heart. ”
Can trusting the Lord be our work of art? What do we create when we do that? A life that gives him glory.
Joyce!! I love it!! And Amber–just wow.
rusty
tinted
weather
tenth
yellow
hallway
therein
heater
teeth
drain
SO not good at these games.
But I can spell SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS in exactly 4 seconds.
I know because I timed myself.
it’s so funny you posted a blog on words….I’m working on a word blog…
rest
lean
hear
listen
learn
store it
lay it out
share
heal
I am a word junkie and could write all day but for the sake of brevity I went with a theme.
Have a great day!
Literally
Wallet
Nostril
Donuts
TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART.
ear
rust
tin
suture
stun
hen
i am so not good at word games. or math games. Okay I am going to just try long words –
TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART.
dr um
store
snare
forget it i am going to bed
ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM-that is impressive I must say!
And WOMAN HITLER -hahahaha!!