It's allergy season out yonder in the country. My eyes itch. My nose itches & runs. I can't breathe. Last night after (stupidly) sampling a just-out-of-the-oven dessert, I burnt my tongue AND (weirdly) the back of my throat. I had too much caffeine so I couldn't sleep, and I laid in bed and thought of all the things I am looking forward to there NOT being in heaven...
- snot, phlegm, boogers, etc.
- diapers and all their contents
- insomnia
- itches
- spiders (please God)
- arachnophobia
- all other fears
- all other bugs (again....please?)
- hangnails
- anxiety
- the entire nervous system
- heartburn
- calories
- diets
- documentaries/boredom
- the History Channel
- funerals
- sad news
- hurting people who hurt people
- telemarketers
- potty training
- dust (90% of dust is dead skin=trivia for your day....You're welcome.)
- salmonella
- mold
- bills
- insurance
- violence
- healthcare
- conversations about healthcare
- politics
- conversations about politics
- B.O. (Body. Odor. I have a 12 year old boy, you know.)
- other smells boys produce
- dentist appointments
- toenail fungus
- any fungus
- nose hairs
- negativity
- apathy
- artificiality
- pompousness
- restlessness/wickedness
- deafness
- blindness
- darkness
- tears
"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
-C. S. Lewis
2 Corinthians 5:4-10
For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. We live by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.
