BOOGERING

Here in the South, especially here in the RURAL South,  people like me just have a different language.  Now I'm thinking that many of you not in the South have become familiar with "redneck" because of a famous redneck entertainer from right here in my area.  And if we all here in the South be honest, when you saw the title of this blog post, your thoughts immediately went to nose activities.  It's okay to admit I could be right.

Now just to do the right thing in my writing, I took the time to look up the word "booger".  Uh huh, I did.  The dictionary says "slang for a piece of dried mucus from your nose.  When you pick dried mucus out of your nose, this is an example of a booger."  I kid you not, blog readers, I'm not making this up.  That's what it says and honestly, that's what I thought it was.  To the dictionary's credit, however, it also says it means a "problematic or difficult thing". 

I was remembering as a child when I would play with the next door neighbors.  The oldest child was a girl slightly younger than me and their second child was a boy slightly younger than their oldest child.  We would enjoy playing at dusky dark and a favorite game was "Ain't (see the redneck language?) no booger men out tonight".   We didn't say, "Ain' any boogeymen out tonight, we called them as they were--boogermen."  We two girls would walk around the yard singing that line over and over and over and the brother would be hiding and jump out to scare us.  We tried to be prepared for him, but somehow in that dusky dark, he would scare us every time.

I was reminded of this game earlier in the week when The Girl and I were talking about problematic and difficult things.  She remarked, "The devil is just boogering up my mind."  You know that stuck with me and I have thought of it often since then because truthfully, he does that to me, too.  And I'm betting, he does it to you, too.  Any time I have much going on and have problematic and difficult things on my mind and heart, here comes the devil to put all kinds of nasty "green mucus" thoughts in my mind.  

After giving this so much thought, I decided I would adhere to what the Scriptures say about it...."resist the devil and he will flee from you".  As many of you regular blog readers know, I think one of the scariest scriptures for a Christian in the Bible is in Luke 22:31 where Jesus tells Peter that "Satan desires to have you and sift you as wheat......but I have prayed for you...."  My mind has tossed that around and around and I have been encouraged that I'm in that number that Jesus has prayed for....and I will not tolerate the devil boogering up my mind.  

My week has been hard...and last week, too.  I will share a personal thing, though this thing was not as hard as a lot of the other "stuff" going on.  Over the holiday weekend, I self-diagnosed a kidney stone, hurt with it for two days, then rejoiced when it passed on Sunday morning at 5:49 a.m.  Uh huh, a jagged almost 3mm stone.  It was boogering with my body, I assure you.  No more time for that either!

So I encourage you via this blog yet again to not let the devil booger your mind.  Keep it clean and healthy and full of Jesus!

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