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Why do people insist on exercising their right to be right?

There are just some people who must be right, whenever they see the chance. In the middle of a conversation. In the middle of a group of people. Anywhere. Around people they don’t even know. They have to point out when they notice someone saying or doing something incorrect.

Regardless of whether or not it makes them look like a total ass. They must be right. At all costs, right is right. To be wrong would be, well, wrong.

I guess I’m just as guilty of it as the next.

Why is it so hard for people to grasp the idea that all these rights to which we think we are entitled are merely manmade ideals?

Somewhere along the way the manmade rights of “Life”, “Liberty”, and the “Pursuit of Happiness” combined with the “Right To Be Right” to form the “American Way”.

Why do people ask questions with obvious answers?

Supervisor - “Why did you come in late on Thursday?”

Me - “I overslept”

Supervisor - “Well why didn’t you call and let someone know?”

Me - “BECAUSE I WAS SLEE-PING! HELLO!”

This just says it all…

“The Left mocks the Right, the Right knows it’s right. Two ugly traits. How far should we go to try and understand each other’s point of view? Maybe the distance grace covered on the cross is a clue.”

- Bono

Father,

Break my heart again.

It’s become as hard as a rock. I feel nothing. I’ve become cynical and skeptical. Critical of all things I hear. When I hear of things You are doing through others, I either write them off as foolish fundamentalists or emotional sensationalists.

I’ve lost my joy of hearing about your work. When people speak about the ways You are moving and the people You are moving through, I scoff. I’m so caught up in the politics of debate that I can’t just rejoice that You are moving through people.

You keep sending messages. You keep picking away at this rock in my chest. I just keep adding more layers over what You chip off. I just want you to shatter it. Smash it. Break it to pieces. Because I think that’s the only way You’ll be able to make it flesh again. You may have to start from scratch.

Criticism. How did I ever come to be so full of the thing I hate the most. You move in more ways that I can or will ever imagine. For me to think You’re not moving in one place or another because of the way a person or group is presenting the message is just pure foolishness. I’m a fool to think you confine Yourself to one style, theology, or denomination. I’m an even bigger fool to think that You will not move through one church, denomination, or group simply because I see their ways as outdated and irrelevant.

Lord,

Help me realize that anything that is truly done in Your name will NOT return void. No matter how foolish it may seem. No matter how much of a waste of time I feel it may be. Help me to put the blinders on and only see the path set before me. You’ve given me a vision. You’ve given me a dream. You’ve given me desires and a destiny. Help put behind me anything and everything that does not move me in that direction. That includes debate and argument about who, what, when, where, and why You are moving. Most importantly, Lord, renew the Joy in my heart.

Thank You Father,
Amen

I love how some people have just enough personality that they make a rock look friendly.