Friday, February 08, 2008
Heroes and the cat
Something's been bugging me for years. I've been praying about it, and giving it all to God - daily. I've put it on the alter more times than I can count. I've asked God to handle it, and I've done everything in my ant-like powers to follow the Word of God in this matter. And yet, every morning, there it is. Like a cat that you've put out for the night that returns each morning to be fed. I've sought comfort in the Bible, and have found some in what it doesn't say. In the writings of Paul, he never mentions specific regret for the Christians he had killed. His writing never spirals into a guilty discourse of penance that he had to pay to the widows and orphans he helped create. He was a runner of the race, and runners don't spend a lot of time looking back at where they've been or who's chasing them. They concentrate on the race. That is not to say that we shouldn't make every attempt to right what we've wronged, and certainly not that "Do over" means that we can ignore this responsibility. But after we've made every attempt at remedy, we need to get onto the task at hand. Paul's was a life to be emulated. As for me, I've had my say and given my forgiveness and offered my apologies. It's time to tell the cat at my doorstep that he's no longer welcome. It's time to move. |  |
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#1. A regret is like silly putty. You can stretch it out real slowly and it'll keep stretching, or you can break it off really fast.
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