Oct 2: The Power of Knowledge

Knowledge: the circumstance or condition of apprehending truth or fact through reasoning.
Knowledge is something that I think many of us are missing. Most days we meander around never realizing how little we actually know. The only way that ignorance seems to rear its ugly head is when a situation presents itself that forces you to acknowledge what you know or you don’t know. What is even worse is that instead of doing the things we know to do to get the correct answers we rely on what we think we know and in turn disseminate that inaccuracy to others. I have seen this played out more and more in recent weeks because of one thing…the economy.

Now I am in no way a financial guru. But I know what I know and what I don’t know. If I have a question I have no problem asking or researching the answer out. That’s just me. I love to read so I find that subway rides have given me ample time to read up on a lot of subjects.
So I was at the hair salon and I heard the lady doing my hair tell someone on the phone to take all their money out the banks and put it underneath the bed. She was yelling banks weren’t reliable. Riddle me this. What makes underneath your bed any more reliable? What if your dog chewed up all your money? Or your house caught on fire. Your money would be gone. I can understand why she was saying that, but after talking to her the reason she said such things is because she had no knowledge of what was going on. She had gone into panic mode without understanding what she was panicking about. It just brought me back to II Timothy 2:15 that says study to show thyself approved. I think of Daniel who was so wise because he read. It was just a reminder that I need to soak up as much knowledge as I can.

Speaking of hair salons, why does it seem that if I go into a black salon I will be in there no less than three hours? Why must clients be stacked up in such a way that everyone waits forever? It’s enough to make you run around with your hair nappy.

Can any mature man respond to this blog and explain to me why you don’t take no for an answer? Why if you say no it must mean that you have to wait it out? Does it ever occur to the person who continually asks that it may begin to look like begging? Help me out.

Here was my dumb moment of the day. At my job we use Windows Live to IM each other because we are all too lazy to just get up and hold conversations with one another. So somehow I accidently changed my settings to Spanish. So everything reads in Spanish and I can’t change it back because I only understand some of the words. ?Puedes Ayudar?