For this one I got out the real hard cover Webster’s Encyclopedia Unabridged Dictionary. No Wikipedia, No google. Just a plain old hard cover book.

When I graduated Highschool I was still working at the veterinarian hospital as a Lab Technician. Dr. Klink, known as 01 (Pronounced Oh One) I viewed as a mentor. The 01 origin was the doctor number his work was coded under in the computer. I pushed that nick name and it stuck. 01 had given me the Webster’s Dictionary as a gift for graduation from High School.

We sat in the phone room as I unwrapped it. He told me how important it was to understand the English language and that his mentor had given him a dictionary as a gift for his High School graduation. Little did we know the internet would come along and my dictionary would get limited use over the years. Little did I realize that 01 would eventually disappear from my life and I would need to find new mentors.

Accountability – Subject to having to report, explain, justify; responsible; answerable.

Mourning – the act of one who mourns; sorrowing or lamentation.

Boundary – something that indicates bounds or limits, a limiting boundary line. Also called a Frontier.

Perseverance – Steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose a state.

I got out the bible for contrast on these words. The hard cover Christian Standard Bible.

Accountability – Mathew 12:36-37 I tell you that on the day of judgement people will have to account for every carless word they speak. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.

Mourning – Mathew 5:4 Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

Boundary – Mathew 16:21-23 From then on Jesus began to point out to his disciples that it was necessary for him to go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, priests and scribes, be killed, and raised the third day. Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Oh no, Lord! This will never happen to you!” Jesus turned and told Peter, “Get behind me, Satan!” You are a hinderance to me because you’re not thinking about God’s concerns, but human concerns.

Perseverance – Mathew 24:13-14 But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

In its finality hope endures and justice is provided.

This good news of the Kingdom will be proclaimed in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

Keep Calm and Carry On.

Jesus is coming to get us.