Hae-factor

Don't use "reckon" in a sentence or you may lose cool points as I did.

• [11: 11]
• Me: Happy Friday Eve!
• [11: 12]
• Fellow small group member: happy friday man!
• [11: 12]
• Fellow small group member: eve*
• [11: 13]
• Me: Thanks, dude. How was small group?
• [11: 13]
• Fellow small group member: good man, sorry you couldnt be there
• [11: 13]
• Me: No need to be sorry, man.
• [11: 15]
• Me: I'm booked most Wednesdays throughout the year, but I'll definitely come by when the plan falls through.
• Any neato conversations take place that I missed out on?
• [11: 16]
• Fellow small group member: we did chapter 5, talked about prayer and stuff
• [11: 16]
• Me: I love how "and stuff" captures the gist of most of almost everything in conversations.
• [11: 17]
• Fellow small group member: ha ha, of course
• [11: 17]
• Me: "So what'd y'all do?"
• "Stuff."
• [11: 19]
• Fellow small group member: we talked about repeticious prayer and how its pointelss
• [11: 19]
• Fellow small group member: we were on that tangent for a while
• [11: 19]
• Me: Yeah ... repeating something for the sake of repeating has less than no value.
• [11: 20]
• Fellow small group member: but like praying for every meal, if you say the same thing you might as well not pray
• [11: 21]
• Me: Hm. I'm not sure if that's entirely true. I met someone that said they don't always say grace before meals because they don't want it to become a habitual thing.
• What if the underlining question of repeating something is whether one's heart is in it or not?
• [11: 22]
• Me: Are we really grateful for the blessings God give us? Do we really want the food that we're about to eat to nourish our bodies and minds to do more for His glory and kingdom? Or is it just mindless babble to get to the first bite.
• [11: 23]
• Fellow small group member: but i think if your heart it truly in it youll say something new every time
• [11: 23]
• Fellow small group member: no matter how much your heart is in it, repetition looses feeling
• [11: 24]
• Me: Really? -_-
• I've lost count (never had it in the first place, actually) of the number of times I've prayed the Our Father / Lord's Prayer, but the more I pray it nowadays, the deeper I get into the depths of how Jesus wanted us to approach it.
• [11: 25]
• Fellow small group member: im just saying i think there is a fine line
• [11: 25]
• Me: Yeah. Repeating for the sake of babbling really is pointless. But then again, wouldn't you say it's pointless to come up with something new for the sake of not wanting to be repetitive?
• [11: 27]
• Fellow small group member: its possible
• [11: 31]
• Me: I reckon it's much like expressing "I love you" or "Thank you." There's superlatives and synonyms to try to switch things a bit, but the majority of the time, it's the simplicity of the words uttered so often that tend to mean much more when you can hear the person's heart in their voice or words.
• [11: 31]
• Me: I totally ought to give myself cool points for using "reckon" in a sentence. ^_^
• [11: 32]
• Fellow small group member: i say negative points for using reckon
• [11: 32]
• Me: How darest thou!
• [11: 32]
• Fellow small group member: well hate to cut this short but i got a dentist appt
• Me: Have fun!!!
• [11: 35]
• Meebo Message: Small group member is offline