What's UP With This?!
Lovers of the English language might enjoy this one that is making the rounds via the internet. I’ve changed it UP some...
UP is a two-letter word in English that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word. It is listed in the dictionary as being used as an [adv], [prep], [adj], [n] or [v].
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP and then get UP?
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP, and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report? We call UP our friends and we brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.
At other times the little word has a real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP !
If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
One could go on & on, but I'll wrap UP with a few Bible verses I came UP with.
Matthew 7:12 In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums UP the Law and the Prophets.
Luke 7:14-15 Then he went UP and touched the coffin, and those carrying it stood still. He said, "Young man, I say to you, get UP!" The dead man sat up and began to talk...
John 4:13-14 Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling UP to eternal life."
Acts 7:55 Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked UP to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.
Acts 1:9-11 After he said this, he was taken UP before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. They were looking intently UP into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. "Men of Galilee," they said, "why do you stand here looking UP into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven."
UP is a two-letter word in English that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word. It is listed in the dictionary as being used as an [adv], [prep], [adj], [n] or [v].
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP and then get UP?
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP, and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report? We call UP our friends and we brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.
At other times the little word has a real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP !
If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
One could go on & on, but I'll wrap UP with a few Bible verses I came UP with.
Matthew 7:12 In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums UP the Law and the Prophets.
Luke 7:14-15 Then he went UP and touched the coffin, and those carrying it stood still. He said, "Young man, I say to you, get UP!" The dead man sat up and began to talk...
John 4:13-14 Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling UP to eternal life."
Acts 7:55 Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked UP to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.
Acts 1:9-11 After he said this, he was taken UP before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. They were looking intently UP into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. "Men of Galilee," they said, "why do you stand here looking UP into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven."
posted by Danny Sims | 2:15 PM 
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