day no. 15,045 continued... new year, new words

I have created two words recently by misspelling two regular words. The words were illustration and beautiful. I accidentally typed, "illustraction" and in the other case, "beautidul."

But seeing those misspelled words immediately created a new word whose meaning was intuitively obvious the moment I considered them as words in their own right.

ILLUSTRACTION - an illustration intended to add insight or color to a previous point which actually confuses or grays the main point.

Many sermon illustrations are merely stories that remind the pastor of a word or situation similar to the point being made in a passage. So the story is already based off an observation which is based off the main point. But then, to top it off, the story is memorable, funny, gut-wrenching, etc... but afterwards no one remembers the main point of the story, let alone the point which is was supposed to make clearer. 

The point was not accentuated, it was lost in the fray.
It was not expanded, it was extinguished.

The post service conversation inevitably centers around the memorability of the anecdote, but no one recalls or cares what the point of that story was or how it provided greater illumination of the main point. That is an illustraction.

BEAUTIDULL - an attempt to make something more aesthetically pleasing which results only in running down the value of being aesthetically pleasing in the process. 

There are any number of attempts made at putting lipstick on a pig in order to pretty up the pink bag of pork chops, but in the end, the result is a worse feeling about lipstick than an increased affection for pigs. How much of what is often done in order to be attractive results in lowering the bar of what constitutes attractive to begin with? Or, if accomplished, only adds to the droves of those doing that thing in order to look that way without any thought of it highlighting or accentuating any natural beauty in the person as God made them. This is not to say that some barns do not need painting, but to say that painting them hot pink accomplishes something different than repainting them red.

If every barn begins glowing hot with pink in order to be considered unique and diverse,  beauty and diversity themselves are the victims of the gruesome applications.