No, this really isn’t all that in-depth, so don’t get tooo excited.
But I still want to share.
If you have a fake smile - don’t smile at all. I don’t want to see it.
If the ‘hello’ really means ‘my smile is fake, can you tell?’ - keep your mouth shut.
If everything is superficial, then why is it there at all?
And if that’s all it is, then what’s the point?
I’m talking to myself here - so don’t get all up in a tizzy here thinking I’m pointing fingers.
1 Peter 1:22 (New International Version)
Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart.
UPDATE:
In response to Eric - this is NOT meant to be discouraging. Rather it’s meant as a reminder to be real with people. An encouragment to put more weight into relationships. This is something that has bothered me for a long time, due to how I grew up, blah blah blah. I grew up in a tight-knit missionary community without much choice about who you were friends with. There were only so many people. I got really close with a small group - and that has always been my idea of friendship. Back here in the US that is not nearly as often the case - again this is all from _my_ experience. I’m not much of a “group” person, as that involves many looser friendships (in my opinion). So the encouragment is to put more weight and importance on the friendships that _are_ there, even if it’s not how I grew up.
One of the songs we sing at Sanctuary has an incredible couple of lines in it talking about giving your all for God and trusting in Him to bring you through:
And I would jump into Your river;
I would drown to be alive in You.
Every time we sing it I have this heartfelt desire for that to be true in my life, that I would truly be willing to trust in God to the point of taking that leap of faith, knowing that He will be my shelter.
Now this is just plain cool:
UPDATED LINK (the other one stopped working):
Hi. My name is Adam. And I’m an alcoholic eyelid twitcher.
It’s been going on for about 3-4 weeks now, I would say, and I’ve been starting to wonder more and more what could be the cause. It’s my upper right eyelid (great, now when I talk to you you’ll be staring at my eyelid), and it twitches on and off throughout the day. I spoke with the internet about it, and here are some possible causes:
1) Lack of Sleep (and thus fatigue)
2) Stress
3) Too much caffeine
Let’s go through the list and see if any of them apply: 1 - Well yes, I suppose I’m not getting enough sleep. At least not since I joined the mafia. But this has been going on longer than the recent late nights making hits. Besides that, in the past I’ve stayed up late killing people with never a twitch. So I’m not sure lack of sleep is the problem. 2 - Hmmm. Stress. Such a hard thing to measure. I’m sure I’m stressed, but I don’t think any more so than in the past. STOP STARING AT MY EYE!!! Work is the same as always, and apart from work I don’t do all that much besides hang out with Dan and Abby. I hardly think the gym is stressing me out. Moving on. 3 - I do drink a lot of coffee, but again I’ve been drinking a lot of coffee for a long time now. That’s the only real caffeine intake in my life. Don’t really drink soda. And tea, well, why drink tea when you can have coffee???
So none of those things have really changed to the extent of developing an eyelid twitch as far as I’m concerned. I guess I could have brainstem neoplasms, but we won’t go there.
I guess I’m still at ground zero. Now, where did I set my coffee down…