No matter what happens today, make sure you take the time to thank God. I mean, He's the one who plucked you out of nothingness and put you into this world where you have a very real chance of being tortured in Hell for all of eternity if you happen to make the wrong decisions or believe in the wrong things during this incredibly ephemeral existence. Thanks, God!! 🙂
I think that God has a very interesting relationship with the devil. I mean, God's omnipotent, so He could wipe the dude out if He wanted, but He keeps him around. For one thing, He likes the fact that the devil tempts people. It makes it a lot easier for Him to weed out the rotten, morally contaminated humans (because that's a big part of His job). And then, when they die, and He decides to brutally torture them for all of eternity, He doesn't do it Himself. He essentially outsources all that dirty work to the devil. The devil functions as vendor at that point. It must be some sort of weird bartering relationship they have. I don't really know. Do you?
God: "Not today, Satan! Um, unless of course you've got a project you're working on for Me."
God: "I love giving people free will. Best idea I ever had! Then I don't have to take responsibility for any of my human creations. I can create 'em in an instant, and burn them in hell forever in the next. And it's all their fault! Fuckers."
I love the story of The Wedding at Cana, from the Gospel of John. Do you know it? It's beautiful.
Jesus and Mary went to a wedding. We don't know where Joseph was, but whatever. I'm sure he was doing something important, because he missed out on something big.
At the reception, people seemed to be having a good time, drinking wine, getting drunk, but then Mary noticed that things were starting to drag, and she found out why: They had run out of wine.
And that's when she had the idea. Was it divine inspiration? Probably. She said to her Son, "Jesus, we gotta get this party kick-started, and I know that you know what I mean."
Jesus responded, "Really? This is not exactly how I envisioned my first big, public, supernatural magic trick going. I don't know, Mom."
Mary: "For crying out loud, Jesus, just get back there and whip up some hooch. But none of that cheap crap. No Wild Irish Rose for example!"
Well, suffice it to say, Jesus came through. And everyone had a drunken, merry old time.
Beautiful.
