Friday 5: Ties that Bind

“My hands are tied” is an English-language cliche that means “I’d like to do something about this unfortunate situation, but I don’t have the ability or authority.” In what current situation do you feel your hands are tied?I recently started selling on e-bay. Things were going well until one of the buyers decided she was unhappy. She dd not follow my terms of sale but thought she was the one wronged. She took a claim to paypal and I escalated it to allow them to decide. They pretty much sided with us both and she is suppose to return the lot if she wants any money back. Now I have to wait and see if she does. She has till Thursday.

Railroad ties are the evenly-spaced slats that lie perpendicular to train tracks and whose function is to hold the tracks in place and to distribute the weight of the train. Who are the railroad ties in your life? God he is the one and only that can keep me on the tracks that he has laid out for me.

What are your feelings about Thai food? I’ve never really had any…

Whose thighs do you admire? Chicken thighs????

A red tide is a proliferation (in ideal circumstances) of oceanic algae that often seem to discolor seawater and threaten other sealife. If the ocean is your life and the algae the harmful attitudes, thoughts, or moods that crowd out the good stuff, under what conditions in your life is red tide most likely to become a problem? When I no longer allow God to drive and Satan brings in the red tide.

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