Category: Chat

Write about a few of your favorite family traditions.

My favorite and most precious tradition, but I will call it a value, is our family worship. Of course, this is extra to our own morning devotions to the Lord.

As far back as I can remember, and even when my parents worked shift jobs, we will have our family prayer.

Never would they let us go to school or even leave the house without committing our day or our ways to the Lord.

Grown up and on business trips or just away from home, we will do it even after our private devotions just before leaving going outside for the morning.

Dad would do a short prayer and read a verse and ask the Lord for guidance before we leave the house. This would never be long, only about five or so tops.

We all still do this in our individual homes. Then, when we get back home, we never fail to give the Lord thanks for a good journey and his mercies. Even before we drive off in the car, we quickly commit our way to the Lord.

It is a blessing to put him first.

The family that prays together does stay together.

What do you enjoy doing most in your leisure time?

On a lazy, easy day, I love having a nice hot cup of coffee or tea and sitting at a window in a quaint but not too busy coffee shop watching the people outside go by. I like people watching. I am not a voyeur.

If it is raining outside or it is breezy and the wind is lightly blowing, moving things around, I like to watch that, too.

Even if I am at home, I like sitting in my fav chair looking out the big back window, sipping my hot brew with the dogs lying at my feet as I look at the sunrise or the sunset.

I don’t think of anything for certain. I just sit,watch, sigh, and smile.

Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven’t got around to visiting.

I would like to complete a morning hike through a lush forested area and over bedrock to the cascading Tiffany Falls.

The conservation area is said to be waking up in the spring with the “roaring” of the waterfalls during the spring thaw.

Nature can be so picturque.

List five things you do for fun.

Sleep.

Sleep.

Write.

Sleep.

Coffee.

Not in that order.

If you could make your pet understand one thing, what would it be?

They love to play with the ball, bouncing and fetching. It is so much fun to watch them go for the ball. Really, they want to play morning, noon, and night. Have a care; I am only human, and I need my sleep.

I would love to make them understand, i will play, but not all the time.

Breaks are needed for humans.

Is there a dog union?

Do you think they will listen if I picket?

Write about your first name: its meaning, significance, etymology, etc.

My name is Jemima, but most times, I shorten it to Jem. Jem is also short for Jemima, Esther, and Maureen, an encapsulation of all my names.  It isn’t because I hate the name, but I hate the jokes that follow the name. Besides, only my friends call me Jem. Growing up in a predominately white neighborhood and being black with this name was not easy with all the Aunt Jemima pancake jokes.  The food box with the big black woman on the cover. People could be so ignorant. But I never shortened my name in public. Too bad for them, huh?

Jemima is of Hebrew origin, meaning a dove.

My parents named me from the Bible, like one of Job’s daughters in the book of Job chapter 42 verse 14.  In 19th century England, it was a popular name. Throughout history and today, a number of women had and have this name.

It is a good and wonderful name to have, and I love it.