Title: "Redeemed!" Blog by "Encounters and Reflections - Can you hear me now?" Author, Annette O. Brown. June 24, 2020

photograph by AOB Creations. Annette O. Brown

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verb
past tense: redeemed; past participle: redeemed
1.     
compensate for the faults or bad aspects of (something).
"a disappointing debate redeemed only by an outstanding speech"
Similar:
Save, compensate for the defects of, rescue, justify, vindicate, compensating, compensatory, extenuating
Offsetting, qualifying, redemptive, extenuatory
 
2.     
gain or regain possession of (something) in exchange for payment.
"his best suit had been redeemed from the pawnbrokers"
 
 
Similar:
Retrieve, regain, recover, get back, reclaim, repossess
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Day 1
 
 
I looked up and laughed.  What!  This is great.  “I have a chance to be redeemed!” I actually declared out loud.
 
Up in the corner of the awning covering my front porch was a bird’s nest.  It must have been there for sometime because it looked complete and sturdy.
 
 I immediately thought back to  my encounter with a nest I discovered at my back door.  The nest was in the process of being built.  At the time, I had absolutely no patience for it.  I saw it as an inconvenience.  But today, June 24, 2020, today I have a chance to be redeemed...