Pearls of Wisdom and Foolish Mutterings

Breakfast in Your Heart

Here's a quick update on my friend who was shot the other day. He put his hand up to protect his head after he was shot the first several times and fell on the ground. One of the shooters tried to shoot him in the head as he moved his hand up to cover his head. He played dead after that so they would  hopefully believe he was dead and it apparently worked. They ran off after that.

He is doing great - remarkably well. Police still haven't apprehended the shooters. Please keep praying for the family's safety and for the apprehension of the perpetrators.

Our pastor didn't talk about this directly this morning. I'm sure it's because of the uncertainty of the situation at present. It hasn't been in the news either. I worried a little about what I have been writing in my blog, but then I figured the chances of any one of the people involved in shooting my friend reading my blog - or just plain reading - was pretty slim.

Our pastor is a pretty funny guy and this morning he said something that I just have to pass along because I have been laughing about it all day long. He was doing an illustrated sermon about the three parts of the soul and how they interact -the mind, the emotions and the will. He said it starts with your mind having a thought about a perceived slight, for instance, 'how dare they treat me that way.' Then the emotions get involved and get all fired up and fnally the will is moved to action and by that time, we have moved completely away from acting in a Christ-like manner to a soulish reaction. He emphasized his point with the following paraphrased scripture:

"You know, when you lust after bacon and eggs, you've already committed breakfast in your heart."

Which, of course, had the effect of pushing many of us to go out and commit breakfast afer service, especially since it was first service and ended at 10:30.

I told him after the service, "Pastor, that breakfast thing - that was great." He said, "Yeah, that's an old classic. But hey, none of this is intellectual property, so feel free to use it." So I feel like I'm on solid ground here.