Um, I had a dream last night where my right foot had to be amputated and I was walking around with a running shoe on my stump, hoping it looked like a foot. Does that not seem profound somehow? Let's face it: if I ever did have an experience like that, I would ABSOLUTELY want to pretend I still had a foot in my shoe--wouldn't most of us? I remember in my dream, I was just waiting to be fitted for some prosthetic foot to attach to my leg and to stick in there.... There were specific people I knew who were there, who seemed sort of awkward with the emotion of it all. I felt so desperate to have them accept me as normal, and to acknowledge that indeed I still appeared to have a foot. In reality, do we even care about our friends' appendages? Have I ever thought, "Oh good....they've still got all their fingers!"? Of course not.And yet, if one of us ever did lose a foot or a hand or something...come on. It would be a little bit weird. Not life or death--just kind of sad and strange. The thing we don't always realize is that everyone's missing something, right? Maybe it is just more acceptable to lose your self-control than it is to lose a foot. Or maybe it's kind of funny when you lose your patience sometimes but not so much when you lose a hand or whatever. I don't really want to delve too deeply into this, as it is not my intention to create a cheesy analogy. I just wanted us to think about stuff a little bit. It is easier to hide some things than it is to hide others.... We all need each other, and above all we need JESUS, who "fills everything in every way." (somewhere in Hebrews).
On a slightly different, but possibly related note, I read a quote recently that hit me hard and made me so aware that we all need to "be in the light as He is in the light...."(1 John...) for the sake of fellowship, purity, and communion with God:
The scariest thing in the world for us should be if we have sin in our lives and we are getting away with it. (Rick Joyner)
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