Cut

i had a cut. It was right in the wrong place. You know that little space right between your fingers. Yep right there. Right between my fingers. Small cut, but painful. Its placement didn’t help at all. i couldn’t put a band aid on it, it just wouldn’t stick. Of course after some time i thought it was gone, healed, but then i’d do the wrong thing and it would tear back open, more painful than ever.

i felt angry. it was right in the wrong place. You know that space in your heart for the people you love. Yep right there, right with the people i loved. Small anger, but painful. It’s placement didn’t help at all. i couldn’t put a band aid on it, it just wouldn’t stick. Of course after some time i thought it was gone, healed, but then i’d hear, see, or say the wrong thing and it would well back up, more painful than ever.

What do you do, with a cut in the wrong spot, with a hurt that won’t go away. That pain in your heart. The one from that time somebody wronged you, and maybe it was even someone you loved, or respected, or cared for deeply. What are you supposed to do? The phrase ‘time heals all wounds’ seems callously contradictory to how you feel because the more time that wound is open, the more time it fills with pain and disease. i don’t know, maybe it’s a case where you feel over it or beyond it, but then you see that person or something that reminds you of them and it’s like it’s all torn back open again, and you don’t get why.

What do you do? It’s just right in the wrong place and a band aid just won’t stick.

To many itty bitty cuts and it gets hard for your body to heal them all. You could bleed out, slowly and painfully.
i once heard a speaker say, ‘Bitterness is like when you drink poison and then wait for the other person to die.’ It slowly and painfully drains your soul of life. Bitterness only drains and only keeps the wound open longer.

Open wounds fester with disease which causes infection. Yep, even the ones that you think are too small to notice.
i once heard another speaker say, ‘When you want to make those other people pay and you cant give that up to God, that is like telling God that you think that you can do His job better than Him. That, my friends, is revenge.’ Even the smallest hint of revenge infects your soul with disease.

What do you do? It’s just right in the wrong place and a band aid just won’t stick…

Forgiveness, however, means a little more than simply getting rid of the hurt and not feeling angry mad or bitter at another person. Forgiveness, True God-like Forgiveness, means you actually have to wish the best for that person. The kind of best you would wish any other person. No bias. The love you have for the person you like the least is the maximum amount of love you can have for God. This isn’t a new concept. If you think you can be mad at your brother, but be sold out for God, then you have another thing coming. 1 John 1:9, in the Bible, says, “Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness”

It takes more than a band aid because a band aid just won’t stick.

i went to the store the other day, and i found this stuff. It was called, ‘New Skin,’ or something like that. Anyways, you take this stuff and you spray it on your open cut. It does a few amazing things. It covers the open wound and protects it while it heals. It moves with the wound, like actual skin, so as not to tear the wound open again. Even if your wound is infected or diseased, this ‘New Skin’ stuff kills the bacteria. Through antibacterial chemicals, ‘New Skin’ cleans out your wound. All i had to do was go to the store, buy this stuff, and spray it on.

The Bible talks about this thing called Forgiveness. Forgiveness stops the bleeding. It covers your wound so you don’t bleed out. Forgiveness moves with the wound, like actual skin, so as not to tear the wound open again. Guess what…Even if your wound is infected or diseased, this Forgiveness stuff kills the infection that revenge spreads through your heart. Through Jesus, Forgiveness cleans out your wound. All you have to do is go to God, submit this to him, and forgive the other person.

Attempt #2

This is my second attempt!

Here we go! Ok, so i have been out and about, traveling the country. In my journey's i don’t always have internet. This leaves me with few options.

Here is what i have come too:
-Change the blog name (so as not to mislead)
-Writing on the road (of course i will upload when i get the chance)


So let's try this again.....
My second attempt on this venture becomes my first attempt at Intermittent Lucidity.

'Intermittent', of course, means 'alternately ceasing and beginning again.' ‘Lucidity’ still means ‘easily understood’, or ‘clarity.’

The NEW combination of words brings us to my new bloggy endeavor. To Share EVERY SO OFTEN Things in my life that have been made CLEARER to me.

As often as possible i plan to share my thoughts, feelings, and opinions on life. Life could be things as little as riding the bus and newspaper clippings, to things as big as God and the Meaning of Love. Now remember these are mere thoughts, opinions, and feelings. i might not share the whole story, or entire thought. i want to keep my blogs short, sweet, and to the point. What i post might only be a portion of what is really going through my mind, and may only be the little tidbit i wish to share.

YIKES, So here i go....AGAIN!
And here goes anyone who decides to share this exciting endeavor. On to Bears, Beats, Battlestar Gallactica, Life, Love, and Happiness .
A New Journey through my mind, coming every so often.......

Intermittent Lucidity




(please keep in mind this is a growing and learning experience for me, and helpful input would be so awesome)

Linens

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you wanted to get rid of something in your life but couldn’t? It isn’t even that it kept coming back, but like it was just still hanging around? Like there was something you wanted to give up and it never had really left you in the first place?

The other day i was staying at a hotel with my fellow summer travelers. i stayed on the pullout sofa in the room, which i don’t seem to find too strenuous on my back. i wake up twelve minutes before checkout because we were under the assumption that checkout was at noon but it was really at 11. i got everything ready and good to go and i start to put the mattress back in the sofa.
First i thought:
‘i wonder if they clean this everyday’
Then:
‘i would want it to be clean when i got here’ (which it was)
But Then i thought:
‘how can they really clean it, or know to clean it when it’s stuck inside the couch?

Sure they can pull the couch out, check if the sheets were used, and replace them, but this is a little harder when it comes to our lives.

Ya see, it’s kind of tough to get your life clean when you are constantly hanging on to all the dirty stuff. When you have it hidden away somewhere. God can’t pull it out of you, you have to open yourself up, and submit it to Him willingly. In fact, don’t stop there! You must submit your entire self to him. EVERYTHING! That way he not only gets the stains out that you wear on your person, but out of every nook and cranny that stains hide in.


Just to let you know…
…i left the Sofa Open and the Linens Out