Anna M. Aquino

  In all my years of writing the blogs I do not remember if I’ve shared this story before or not, but as I was seeking God about what to write on today I kept thinking about this one.   When I was in college at The Ohio State University, I spent a lot of time in the Scenic Studio.   I was one of the few women I believe they actually ever hired up to that point.   It was probably because few girls wanted to work there, but I enjoyed it.   I got to help build the sets for the theatre shows and work with power tools so it was a win win for me.   It was my senior year and this freshman boy showed up to assist in the studio who obviously thought what I was doing was no place for a woman.   He’d pretty much said that to me.   The guy irritated me.   I shouldn’t have let it get to my head, but it did.   I wanted to prove to him that I could read a blueprint and wield an air powered nail gun with the rest of them.   I had used...

I confess that I have a love of musicals and certain ones I could sing out loud from memory down to the overtures. Camelot is one of those musicals. I found myself the other day singing this song http://youtu.be/TdrEmZ35fxc through the house. It’s C’est Moi. Lancelot sings it. In English it means “It’s Me!” If you’re familiar with the story he thinks he’s the most perfect man on the planet and more until he falls into an adulterous affair with Guinevere and it all comes crashing down around him. It’s like the scripture in Proverbs 16:18 (KJV)”Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.” Have you ever been around people like this? The ones where you can’t get a word in, and they spend the entire conversation focusing on how perfect and wonderful their lives are at the moment, how much they are so better than you, and you find yourself wanting to cry at their arrogance it’s so annoying. I had a conversation with someone like that sometime ago (IF you...