Most Merciful Moment:
Remembering the password for your online utility bill on the second try.
Most Sanctified Moment (Or was that Just Fear of Confrontation?):
Telling the barber your weird haircut “Looks great!” and giving a 30% tip.
Less Sanctified Moment:
Going to a different barber to fix the weird haircut and criticizing the first barber the whole time.
Best Earthen Vessel Moment:
Throwing out your back while putting on your socks.
Highest Anthropology Moment:
Realizing that you’ve been crushing it as a parent lately. The kids got to school on time this morning without any tears, you had a great snack prepared when they got home, you read to them for a whole 30 minutes, and then bedtime went really smoothly.
Lowest Anthropology Moment:
The following morning when you made your kids wail uncontrollably by threatening to sell the dog on Ebay if they don’t get their shoes on in the next ten seconds.
Worst Hot Mic Zoom Moment:
Doing dishes during an important meeting when you thought your camera was off.
Biggest Blessing You’d Never Ask For:
Your phone screen cracked after you left it on top of your car and drove away. For two whole days, you finally realized what it meant to ‘live in the present.’
Smallest Blessing You Didn’t Ask For:
The frozen pizza you found buried in the bottom of the freezer after you burnt the paella.
Worst Purchase:
Tickets to see the reunion tour of the indie band you loved in high school.
Best Purchase:
TIE!!
- A carton of those La Colombe lattes at Costco
- Therapy
Biggest Sigh of Relief:
When a friend told you that Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000-Hour-Rule had been debunked which means you can now officially enjoy the freedom of your own mediocrity.
Best Jewels in Your Crown Moment:
TIE!!
- Offering a place to stay to your friend who just got out of jail. He turned you down, but for a solid week you felt more like a sheep than a goat.
- Donating to Mockingbird, of course.
Best Text You Didn’t Actually Send:
I’d agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong.
Best Text You Did Send:
I’m sorry.
Biggest Miracle God Performed Which You Were Too Oblivious to Notice:
Somehow getting you from Point A to Point B while you were texting and driving.
Best Small Win:
TIE!!
- The first email received after your Vacation Responder is activated while on a beach trip with friends.
- That first bite of a Chik-Fil-A pimento cheese sandwich while your kids play in the play place.
Worst Decision:
Going on social media for the fifth time in the day to add another comment to that thread.
Best Surprise You Really Needed But Didn’t Ask For:
No Wi-Fi at the campsite.
Most Theology of the Cross Moment:
Trading in your pride for a minivan.
Happiest/Saddest Parenting Moment:
The day your child can finally read their favorite book on their own.
Best-Intentioned Paved Road to Hell:
Calling your dad on his birthday and proceeding to guilt trip him over how poorly he’s managing his diabetes.
Best Grace in Practice Moment:
When, during a heated game of basketball at the Y, you angrily shoved the guy who was covering you, and then that same guy texted you later to make sure you were doing OK and that he knew you were going through a tough time and that he was there for you if you needed anything.
Biggest Surprise:
Sitting through five rounds of Christmas live nativity scenes and pageants and somehow being moved to tears during the final performance when everyone was singing, “When God gave us salvation that blessed Christmas morn” (….GOOO!!!! TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN!!!!).
Anything else we missed?!?
