The light-medium blue color of old porch ceilings (before air-conditioning) said to keep flies from landing and depositing their tell-tale spots.
It was cool and peaceful on the porch, swinging, gazing up at the freshly coated fly-speck blue ceiling. I fuzzed my eyes and imagined clouds floating by.
church hurt is where you experience a degree of distance, pain, or judgement from your church community. Essentially, you are just unable to “find your place”. This is prevalent in the Christian community, but can be extended to other religions.
Now that I am an adult I am beginning to heal from the church hurt that was inflicted on me as a child.
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.