While taking my two-mile-walk today, I found myself thinking about running again. Only I had to remind myself or, rather remember the verse in Matthew 26:41 “Watch and pray, lest you enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak.”
I was sorely tempted to run but, naw too many years have flown by.
My cross-country days are almost fifty years behind me now. I must be content with walking though the time it takes me to walk two miles is nothing to brag about!
When the subject of running a race comes up, I know for a fact that NDN’s are very good at it.
Some excel at it more than others.
Which brings me to the prefix of ex and its’ many uses.
We see ex-presidents, congressmen, and women, ex-actresses, or actors, and ex-athletes. From this one can surmise that ex means past or before, even used to be…
Like an ex-wife one who is no longer the wife or in the case of the male an ex-husband.
Though one does not say my ex-job it, it just does not seem to roll off the tongue smoothly. Does it?
The armed forces do infiltrate and when the muck hits the proverbial fan, they have to ex-filtrate pretty darn quick.
Ex-filtrate would have been a pretty fancy, word for the ndn’s to use but they just used the words like run or hide!
At least, I think they did.
I know we used a different word than ex-tract or ex-tracting, when we uhh borrowed a farmers’ watermelon, tomatoes, or picked some fruit from his trees.
Ohh yeah, how about when you re-lax can you ever ex-lax?
When one meets a veteran, he, or she is not an ex-serviceman, or woman, they are still soldiers it never leaves them. One of my pet peeves is when people talk about princess Diane. People conveniently forget she was divorced. She lost the title of princess and become just an untitled person.
There are no ex-princesses in my neck of the woods.
Remember Prince he said “that he was now the artist formerly known as Prince.” He did not want to be called an ex-Prince.
One more point to ponder about the so called, X-men are they no longer men?
Maybe too much to stretch it that far huh?
I know of one entity that practices ex-communication does this mean you are not able to talk too, or hear from them?
I am glad that at least I can not become an ex-ndn at least until, there is an ex-ecutive order to that effect.
Might be too much for this simple ndn. If you can help me out please do so!
Now I must ex-it until the next time.
That means get out of Dodge!