Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Augh! I Almost Forgot A Title!

I've got a challenge for you all. (Whoopee!) So I was reading in 2 Timothy today and Paul was getting very fatherly sprewing out good advice left and right. One theme kept surfacing. Take a look.

"Warn them before God against quarreling about words; it is of no value, and only ruins those who listen." 2:14

"Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly." 2:16

" Dont have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. And the Lord's servant must not quarrel." 2:23-24.

Now, I was thinking that we all might try to keep our shirts on and keep our underwear from knotting and try not to have cows for the next couple of days and see how things go. Paul seems to think this would be a good idea and Paul's assumptions are usually correct (I don't know why, maybe because his words are divinely inspired or something.). I am going to try to keep track of all the arguments I get in in the next couple of days and I'll record them here. I dearly hope that the numbers get shorter each day. It's pretty late in the afternoon, but I think I will begin counting today. If anyone else wants to attempt this with me--great! Winner gets the satisfaction of knowing that they're a winner (oh boy, oh boy) and that they're better, more pleasing servants of God. Let's fight that little gremlin of discord. Stick him with whatever you find. Such as:
The dagger of 'swallow your pride'.
The shovel (which are often used as last-minute weapons in movies) of 'grin and bear it'.
The baseball bat of 'turn the other cheek'.
The big stick of 'maybe there's a possibility I'm not right every single time'.
The sharp object of 'your sister's annoying habit really isn't that annoying (really)'.

Anyways... My last fifteen minutes or so have been argument-free. I'm doing well. Hannah was even in here for a minute and we didn't but heads once.

Well, just as a heads up, I'll be going out of town on Thursday and won't have acess to a computer (I don't think) for a little over a week. I just wanted to give you all time to mentally prepare yourselves for the day when no new posts will appear and you feel your very soul will wither and die. How very sad. I'll miss blogging.

Have a fantastic evening everyone!

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