Valuable stars

Man. Talk about procrastination. I wrote half of a blog post over the summer and never posted it.

Over the summer I took three summer classes and on top of that had to study for the dosage exam before this semester started. One day, as my summer classes were coming to an end, I grabbed some lunch at Chick-fil-a and sat down to study a bit for one of my finals. As I was sitting there, I overheard a man talking on the phone to his friend and he was complaining about a few things going on in his life, mainly about a ticket he hadn’t paid from 3 years ago in MD, which caused his license to be suspended in SC. There was a sentence he said that really got my attention, “What have I done in this world to make me have all this grief? “

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The last week of my summer classes, I was watching ‘wife swap, and a scene really got me thinking. A mom that swapped families was talking to the dad of that family about his son’s behavior, which was unacceptable to her. Her solution was to give stars for good behavior, which they could use for TV time, computer time, and such, and to take away the stars when they were not obeying her and acting out. In this one seen I saw, the son was completely acting out and disobeying so the “mom” told his dad that he would not be about to go to football practice because she was going to take all his stars away.

When the dad heard this, he told the women that she was not going to make his son stay home from practice because it was something that he loved to do. So he told the “mom” to take away his stars instead of his sons. And she did.

After the son came back from football practice, he was still being completely disobedient so his father told him that he was not supposed to go to practice because he broke the rules, but he let him and said:

“I gave up my stars for you because I didn’t want you to miss out on football practice.“

And can you imagine the son’s response?

“So?”

This is what Jesus did for us. Gave up his live, his stars, so we could go on living. And my response is somewhat like that little boys.

“So?”

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And to wrap this all up, I am such a procrastinator. Not just for not posting this for months, but for putting off writing my 5-page paper till the day before it’s due.

But that is what college is for.

Isn’t it?