and its just been one of those days,
been one of those days,
every glass half full,
every drop lemonade.
just been one of those days,
one of those days,
all my worries to bed,
my faith wide awake.
hey, hey, hey,
just been one of those da - ay - ee - ay - ay - ays
just been one of those--
day - hey - heys,
thank You.
--shaun groves
[and while we're in the quoting mood, here's a cool thing someone
wrote to me recently:
"though they may justly accuse us of a multitude of sins, though they
may drag us through the mire of disrepute, or perhaps exalt us with
the praise of saints, let us not allow this: that they call us
complacent." good ol' walker pfost.]
for the next 6 days, just to try it out.
breakfast = 1 banana. 1 glass of milk.
elevensies = 1 apple. 100% fruit juice.
lunch = 1 maruchan instant noodle cup. water.
snack = 1 handful of carrots + 1 handful of broccoli. 100% fruit juice.
dinner = 1 pear. 100% fruit juice or water.
supper = whatever i freeking want. probably pasta.
and, by the way, it's been 16 days without any soda or caffeine of any kind.
here's to the end of the semester!
the only thing i can guarantee, between the two of us, is this:
i will hurt you.
that's it. relationships, romantic or otherwise, are represented by
the exact same mathmatical formula. it looks like this:
1 fallen person + 1 fallen person = 2 fallen people
we don't improve ourselves in pairs or in groups. we are,
unfortunately and irrevocably, imperfect. thats the odd irony of the
aforementioned guarantee. guarantees assume perfection. to "guarantee"
something is to essentially bet that it will work perfectly, at least
for a certain amount of time.
strange, then, that the one guarantee about relationships is that they
won't work perfectly at all. we will all, at one time or another, act
perfectly wrong.
a corollary of this argument is as follows: love is a choice. if you
base your ability to love someone on their ability to please you or
perform their "relational duties" correctly, you're setting yourself
up for disappointment. there is only one personal being in the entire
universe that is worthy to be loved for His relational perfection. He
is worth being loved for who He is. you know what He is?
He is guaranteed.
so stop trying to find it somewhere else. you won't find it in a
pastor, or a teacher, or a discipler, or a leader, or a friend, or a
date, or a spouse, or a drinking buddy, or anything that involves
another person. pastors fall and teachers lie and disciplers mislead
and leaders crumble and friends betray and dates break up and spouses
hate and drinking buddies...well, drink.
your only hope for something sure is That which does not change.
so act like it.
