Then we have Lindsay Lohan, who is probably going to jail. Again. For not doing what most of society probably considers to be reasonable tasks after her legal history: community service, psychological counseling, and a Shoplifters Anonymous course. Of course she's been in this legal do-se-do since 2007 and served a mere 14 days of her last jail sentence. Obviously she's gotten away with it without severe ramifications so far; who needs accountability?
Babies that eat as if it's their last meal. Adults who ignore punishment because others enable them too. It's a problem across the board - in the world, and in the Church. The Church I've grown up in focuses so much on the "do not judge" mentality. [Matthew 7:1-6] It's one thing to strive to not cast harsh judgments, but it's another thing to have no accountability. I got into a debate about this with my high school students a few weeks ago. Good times right?
Baby catfish. Lindsay Lohan and lost accountability. Are you still with me?
As for me? My current, blatant, shortcoming is worry. Somewhere after seeing the baby I've started to affectionally call "catfish" and before reading the latest on the saga of Lindsay Lohan, I attempted to *ahem* plan out some details for this whole Africa deal. That went really well, friends... I think all I did was give myself an anxiety attack. Wondering if I still have enough time. Wondering how on earth "I" can pull it together. Yet still knowing that "I" will not be "pulling" anything together. "If God brings me to it, HE will bring me through it." All that jazz... I even took a shower in an attempt to wind down a bit. No dice. Needless to say, I laid in bed for an hour and a half before even falling asleep. I said the Lord's prayer three times. [I'm not sure precisely when the habit started. I'm pretty sure it involved a dentist's visit without Novocaine...] I tried my best to quote Matthew 6:25-34 by memory. When I went to Church camp I remember one of my cabin-mates making up a rhyme to memorize it. Unfortunately I can't remember the tune, or the entire scripture, but at least I memorized the important points. Either way, the Lord's prayer works much better. I find it works best if you actually are cognizant of the words you're praying. "Thy will be done" "Thine is the kingdom" Good stuff. Still almost two hours before I could sleep though. Now I get to go to work. Nothing like working almost double the amount of hours you've slept, am I right?
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." -Matthew 6:25-34
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