"If you don't have anything nice to say..."
i'll apologize to those among my readers who could still care a bit less whether i blog or not. i guess i've been going through something of a 3/4 life crisis in the last few weeks. (i'm sure i've been going through my mid-lifer since i was twenty.) Several incidents have either occured or failed to occur with such impeccable timing that i've been left reeling-- and speechless. It's a funny phenomenon that just when i'm sure that life can't get any more irritating, that the world can't get any weirder, that people couldn't be any more arbitrary or senseless, they always find a little more energy for just that. i'm afraid i've never been as confused or cynical as i am presently-- and that's saying a lot: i don't remember ever not being confused or cynical.
All that notwithstanding, i'll turn this into a tribute to Steph. She is, as always, a very solid rock in this ridiculous river. And she just blessed me with a second cup of coffee, beautiful woman.
i very much hope soon to be writing about warmer, fuzzier synapses. 'Till then, please forgive the pauses.
All that notwithstanding, i'll turn this into a tribute to Steph. She is, as always, a very solid rock in this ridiculous river. And she just blessed me with a second cup of coffee, beautiful woman.
i very much hope soon to be writing about warmer, fuzzier synapses. 'Till then, please forgive the pauses.
posted by c at 9:45 AM
17 Comments:
Remember everything happens for a reason, we just have to pick ourselves back up give it over to God and move on with our lives.
Hee hee! O sage Anonymous, i've no doubt whatever that everything happens for a reason, nor even that everything happens for a good reason with respect to God. It's the motives of the agent through whom "everything" comes that has "bent me to the ground" (to channel some Mullins). Everything working out for the good didn't seem to absolve Judas, as it turns out.
But you're right: there're some reasons, those reasons are none of my business & it's time to move on. Thanks for the encouragement whoever you might be. i do appreciate it.
I don't want to put a hornet in your bonnet, Anon but....
"Remember everything happens for a reason, we just have to pick ourselves back up give it over to God and move on with our lives. "
I hate when people say stuff like that. It has no graspable truth. First, while pretending to be in the Romans 8:28 vein, it relegates everything to a simple "cause and effect" system. Secondly, 2 of the 4 phrases are patently humanistic.
1. We just have to pick ourselves back up
2. Move on with our lives.
This is Hallmark Christianity not genuine encouragement.
That said, here is my advice.
Perk up!
Work harder!
You can do it!
Come on, Cody!
Go!
Love, you brother. I am praying for you and your beautiful waitress.
Thank you,jw. we covet yer prayers. And i'll quit sulking soon. Just having one o' those combo-punch months.
"Everything working out for the good didn't seem to avsolve Judas, as it turns out.
I didn't say everything happens for good, but I believe that God is in control of everything in our lives whether we agree or disagree with it.
to jw I guess all I can say is that's what I've done my whole life, that's all I can draw from.
For you to say this is "hallmark christianity" is absurd to me.
Maybe because I don't encourage the way you do with a RaRa chant doesn't mean it not encouragement.
It encouraged the person that I meant to encourage and that person isn't you.
I think the chear was just a joke about the humanistic ways we like to solve problems. Overall the truly getting up and going comes from His Grace. What part we play in that... I'm sure we all have our opinions. I personally like what Proverbs 2 has to say Cody. I also feel "bent to the ground" and am seeking too.
We will take your family to the throne of grace.
-jw's loving wife who usually knows when her husband is being funny
Whew. Many anonymouses... anonymice?.. in tha' hizzy.
Dearest LW: thank you sis. i think it's the stuff that heaven's made of to get to know that we're being prayed for-- especially by you guys.
Dear Seriously Anonymous: your writing smells familiar, but i can't make you out completely. i have the irritating tendency to take up a chance to argue even were i fully to agree with my contralocutor (and so, to disagree with myself-- which i do with disturbing regularity.) Seeing as i've no idea whatsoever who you are, and you were nice enough to write me in spite of that, i'd very much like to avoid offending you into a deeper, quieter anonymity. i can't resist saying that i didn't say that you said that everything happens for good. To own up, i'm the only one involved in this conversation that has made spooky gestures in that direction. Forgive my vagueness. i was extrapolating a potential end for the sake of sparing the world an exotically long-winded, and almost certainly unnecessary load of parsimony. i'm very lazy that way. You definitely didn't say that everything happens for a good reason; rather, a God-determined reason, from the aftermath of which we must "pick ourselves back up." Full stop. Thanks again for the encouraging vibe.
You two should get to know each other better. i'm positive you'd like each other better if you did. Bunch of really very nice people around here. Very nice.
Forgive me, jw. As Cody stated I do not know you and did not know you were joking.
Your statements seemed pretty direct to me though, if you were joking then I'm sorry for the confusion !
Nice, really ? Just kidding :)
Well anon, i'm fairly confident jw wasn't joking, if i know that wily jw at all. Or at least if there was a joke, it was the quasi-self-deprecating sort that works more like a hammer than, say, a rubber chicken. But he is nice; just in a very direct, come-in-to-cook-or-shin-on-out-tha'-kitchen sort of way. He's thorough and pays attention, which is oxygen to this oxygen-breather. i appreciate your sentiment-- or, much more specifically, your motive for the sentiment-- but if you'd rather not have your comments picked apart, shaken, and lightly sauteed, perhaps you might put a face or a name to your anonymity. That can be worth more than a thousand words of clarification. And there are certainly much less friendly styles of engagement than brutal directness. Muchas gracias, anon.
I will leave my husband to speak for himself here on out.
Anonymous, just a tid bit of my own conviction lately. I have found that being anonymous gave me power and control that a woman loves. I did it once and learned my lesson. There is no accountability in it and no need for submission. I don't know of all the anonymous things you have written to Cody, but since he brought it up I wanted to share what I learned. It may not convict you but you can think about it. Also, you may not be a woman but I think it can apply to both gender.
Hi Cody,
Being I am being "called out" to break my "anonymous status," I will and have no probem doing so !
I want to begin by saying that I posted anonymously, because I didn't want my posting to be a conflict of interest (being a friend of a friends)pertaining to some recent events.
I was in no way having a "power trip with words and posting anonymously.
As for Jason, I personally honestly don't care weather you were "joking" or not. I shouldn't have taken it personally just because you didn't agree with my post. I was just offering some encouaraging words, that simple...
From what John and Julie have said about all of you guys you are very nice and respectable people and may you have much love, blessings, and happiness in your lives :)
Goodnight and goodbye !!
Deborah
Aha. Well, nice to sorta finally meet you Deborah, and thank you for your comments. Don't be a stranger.
Hey Cody,
Nice to "meet" you also. I won't be a stranger and am looking forward to getting to know you guys better :)
mighty cool.
Just to the clear the air:
First, I was just joking with the all the Ra-Ra. It would be hypocritical to rant on the "patently humanistic" and then play Jr. High Cheerleader.
I meant no harm in my original comment, I just disagreed. I lack diplomacy. I am sorry.
Very often blogs are riddled with "Anonymous gunfire." I myself felt a little defensive, Deborah. In retrospect, if an anonymous person had really been trying to be discouraging they would have said things not nearly as nice as what Deborah said.
And in this very room/ There's quite enough love/ For all the world.../And there's quite enough love/ And quite enough power/ To chase/ Away/ Any blues...
See... a joke, but like a hammer and not a rubber chicken. i tried to defend you, Sahib.
And ajr--i'd like to say that you have unquestionably the most masterful control o'er the cut-n-paste function of anyone i've yet seen use it. You've carved out a niche art form.
That's diplomacy. Tastefully said.
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