October 13, 2044 What Is In A Name

Inspiration can come from almost anywhere and often comes from surprising places. Since There was ZERO inspiration for this post, I decided to find out what the name James means. Surprising enough, James is a derivative of Jacob and Jacob means Supplant. In short, James does not mean anything on its own. That's a bummer. Being a derivative of Jacob, it means the same as Jacob. Jacob in Hebrew means "to take by the heal or supplant." This means: 

1) to supercede (another) especially by force or treachery.

That doesn't sound so nice does it? It certainly is not me.

2) To take the place of and serve as a substitute for, especially by reason of superior excellence or power.

Now that is more like it. LOL. That still is not me. There is another word that means basically the same thing but sounds much nicer. Successor.This means:


: a person who has a job, position, or title after someone else : someone who succeeds another person

Why all of the hoopla over a name? I couldn't think of anything else to write about. Since I was bored I just thought everyone else should be bored too. LOL. Actually there is a purpose behind this. Here are two biblical excerpts to explain my thoughts.

James 2:55  Listen, my dear brothers: it was those who were poor according to the world that God chose, to be rich in faith and to be the heirs to the kingdom which he promised to those who love him.

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The New Jerusalem Bible. (1985). (Jas 2:5). New York: Doubleday.

How about that! I have my own book. Who says James has no meaning. LOL. Actually it is one of the books that I like the most. No, not because it has my name, but there are a lot of practical bits of wisdom therein.

Mt 7:7  ‘Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. Everyone who asks receives; everyone who searches finds; everyone who knocks will have the door opened.'

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The New Jerusalem Bible. (1985). (Mt 7:7–8). New York: Doubleday.

Now that I have your attention there is a new winners badge from Bibiana's Throwback Thursday challenge blog on my side bar. I was the second winner of her badge and a stencil. Thank you Bibiana. It is a great honor. Bibiana runs this challenge every other Thursday. It runs for two weeks at a time. I think it is great fun and if you would like to try, visit her blog. The challenge rules are halfway down the page.


I was originally going to put some eclipse pictures on here but the pictures are terrible. We had clouds interfering and I couldn't get totality due to trees. Sorry. A typical day for me right now. LOL

I have been working on the painting that I started some weeks ago. Since things had been so crazy around here I've been doing this painting at night. That of course means spending less time than I would like on it, however, I have gotten quite a bit done. Before we get to that, here are the colors used, both on their own and blended to get the extra colors needed. 

This meant spending many hours, evening mostly, to get something done. There are 11 colors here but at least 17 colors were used. Like I said before, This is not your grandfather's paint by numbers. This painting would not be attempted without a magnifier to see the small detail. Now for the painting.

There is a huge amount of small stuff in the landscape. There are decent sized areas to be done in the sky and sea but all else is magnifier work. The light house is close to done. There are still areas that need to be blended in the sky and one or two other areas. (SHH. I need to correct a few small boo boos too. Nothing major though. Nope! Not telling where they are. Just trying to be honest about it.)

The nice thing about the natural world is you do not need to worry about some things being messed up or not being exactly right. Nature, landscapes in particular, is fun to do for that reason. 

I will apologize now for the next few months. I will be very spotty in visiting your blogs to see your work and comment. There will be little time to spare between now and the end of December because of commitments in my life. Living has its ways of creating that kind of detour. I will respond and visit all who take the time to visit and comment. I will also accept any prayer requests and include them in my book of prayer requests. That is an absolute nightly thing for me. It is never skipped or set aside. Prayer requests are never shared unless requested to do so. For that kind of request there is a network of prayer warriors that can be called on. You can contact me for any requests here:

penholder562 at gmail.com

Thanks for stopping by and remember to LOVE THE DETAILS.