"Well how much was the ticket?"
"I don't know, I just gave it to my Mom"  

"I was going to, but it was hard"

"It was kindness week at my school...And I didn't"

"What if a mute person has no hands"


Saturday, February 23

Why did I ask for this?

Name: Chad
Scripture:
No specific scripture, I am just going to lay out what I have been talking with God about.

OAP: It's nearly 4 am, I have been having a truly bad night since about midnight. Before midnight was hot tub Friday, which is always great, although I didn't hot tub tonight. If anyone has really gotten me to talk about myself in the past week or so (which would have been really easy this week because I needed to talk, and I did) I would have talked about my apathy, not really caring about anything. Doing life, and doing it well, but overall I don't think I would miss much that could be taken away from me. I have no passion for anything really, I love living and am immensely enjoying life, but all in all it doesn't matter to me. Something hit me over the past few days and I cared about it, I don't really know why I cared, it still doesn't make sense to me, but I cared. Now I remember why I didn't care before, it often hurts, physical pain. I don't like it, it makes me jaded, it makes me not sleep for four hours, it makes me selfish, it sucks. I really hate that it makes me selfish, I may be arrogant but a perk of apathy is that I was allowed to be much more selfless. I prayed to care about something, now I do, I don't want to. I think I am worse off because of it.

I feel that if I give this completely to you God then things will go back to how they were before. I don't want that. This doesn't fit the sitting among my weeds but there are parallels. I think that you want me to dwell here for a while, maybe longer. I give that choice fully to you, if you want this it is yours, but if you want me to live in it then I will bear it. God it hurts.

1 comment:

Stephanie said...

I just found this blog. I LOVE it!

Chad, your post is so raw; I like it. I hope you hang on to the part that makes you care so much. Sometimes the process or journay God has us on is painful or awkward, but it hones us in such a fantastic way.