Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ. –1 Corinthians 11:1, NIV
Every Monday, I do what every able-bodied nerd (or twelve-year-old with a surrealist mind) does: faithfully watch the new episode of Adventure Time. Everything went so quirky, weird, and unofficially following non sequitur. Until I stumbled across this: They will sow wheat but reap thorns; they will wear themselves out but gain nothing. They will bear the shame of their harvest because of the Lord’s fierce anger. –Jeremiah 12:13, NIV No doubt there have to be differences among you to show which of you have God’s approval. –1 Corinthians 11:19, NIV Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak. –Matthew 9:20, NIV When I learned that Jersey Shore, MTV’s vicious gold mine, was soon to end after its sixth season, I wanted to praise break like David on the Temple! Nothing personal, people-I just can’t understand the money-making logic of pitting seven overtly-tanned strangers á la Real World spend a summer in a share house in the Jersey Shore (sorry!) and spread some fist-pumping, fist-punching, pickle-eating, and drama-making trouble. I never liked the show; I could only digest it for about fifteen minutes. Every time I heard Snooki coif her hair and utter some words in her thick, Brooklyn accent, I felt compelled to ask the God of the Heavens, “Why?” |
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