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here is what i love about people:
ahem ...
somebody invented hamburger.
i love them.
somebody gave my right foot the ability to make a car accelerate.
got to love them.
we can pretty much follow our taste buds
to the food that is healthiest.
kids have more sweet detectors in their mouths than adults.
see, kids explore with their mouths,
and that keeps them from swallowing most poisons in nature.
i love that about people.
our bodies fight toward health.
cuts scab and scar over.
flu symptoms all attempt to rid us of poison.
even mono makes us rest.
we sweat to bring down our temperature.
isn't that the coolest thing you can imagine?
no work.
just get hot and sweat.
i love that about people.
i love that someone invented a machine to make me chocolate shakes.
i love that Americans don't mind smelling good.
i love cops.
we are de-humanizing them.
they see too much sorrow and horror.
but i love that people keep trying to keep us safe.
i love that we haven't turned the job over to robots
yet.
i love all the people who have discovered stuff
like how to make paint be certain colors,
and to make images come over my TV
(today is Jane and the Dragon!)
and all the film we have of Mr. Rogers:
(http://www.transbuddha.com/mediaHolder.php?id=1889)
most of all i love the mystery
of why God would notice me.
i can't even understand some of the rules
and the ones i do know i break regularly.
i mean, look at "touch not the Lord's anointed."
i try.
but sometimes they aren't walking in the anointing.
sometimes they are nasty.
sometimes they enjoy repeatedly running their heads into walls.
in one of my Theology school classes
they prayed for a LONG time
and it was all, "make their tires go flat,"
and, "spoil their meetings."
they were praying about a witches' convention,
but i finally interrupted and prayed that some of these nasty things
would perhaps point them toward believers
so that they could learn about the Lord.
the whole prayer party went flatter than a scuff on the floor.
i love their commitment to their agenda.
i love the people who have shaken my core.
i have been abused and accused.
sometimes from the same people who say, "i love you."
their meanness rattles ya deeper cuz
you don't have defenses up around them.
God said, "I will shake everything that can be shaken."
i don't think He was referring to salt shakers.
maybe He was.
or maybe He was actually referring to us.
He called us salt.
but every lie told about me
and every secret stripped naked in front of the world
after the initial shock wears off
makes me examine my heart.
and that means God still gives a hoot about me.
"whom the Father loves, He chastises."
my resolution for this new year,
new month,
new day
is the same every year and month and day.
i hope to die more loving than i have ever been.
i hope to live more compassionately than i have ever known.
i hope to embrace the repulsive,
to comfort the broken,
to love the jerks.
i hope that my home is different because God lives with me.
i hope that my praise makes this a nice place for Him to hang out.
and i hope i disappear so i am not in the way of you seeing Him.
cuz He is really all i have to offer.
alone i am the repulsive broken jerk
i was sent to provide with hope.
thank God in this new year and month and day
i am never alone. |
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Posted by AllThingsBuck on 2007-12-29 11:02:40 | Rating: | Views: 62
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Ah! What is it to be embraced? To have someone (or thing)..........to be held by? Behold my tears, just look what you did.
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Posted by WUNDERING
on 2007-12-29 11:15:35
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