I call myself a recovering jerk- so here is Jerk Rehab 101:
Brilliant Observation #364: We are all jerks, it’s just that Christians admit it and look forward to the full cure. So, I think of myself and my friends as jerks, saved by grace.
My name is Elizabeth and I’m a jerk (‘hi, Elizabeth’). I admit I am powerless to overcome my jerky condition and rely on THE HIGHEST POWER to survive my inborn habit. I make frequent personal inventories and report the results to the only One who can do anything about it besides me. I have Someone to be accountable to, Someone I trust to love be enough to not let me off the hook too easily. I also reach outward to other jerks still in the throes of their affliction, to keep me less self-occupied.
Now, lest you think I am overly down on myself, that’s not the motive. I don’t think that I am less than the reader, nor better, we are all in the same boat. I take a rather anti-humanist approach. I’m not overly impressed with any of us in our original human condition. But I still long to encourage people as we stumble along life’s way, wishing we could make sense of it all.
Surely, by now you have gathered that I often write in a tongue in cheek fashion, which is appealing to some and therapeutic for me. Humor was a survival technique in my family of origin, especially if you were a carnal slave to attention as I was. It became second nature to see humor everywhere and third nature to insert a smart-aleck comment when it was least expected. Are you daring to wonder what the first nature is? I believe it is to reflect God’s glory. That’s what we are created for. Unfortunately, our second nature is actually sin. Then the other stuff falls in. Just wanted to clear that up for y’all.
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I look forward to feedback on this, so I can get a feel for the direction to go from here. Hang in there my friends, we are all in this together, be faithful, be holy, be blessed! EV