Sunday, November 30, 2008

Fhqwhgads

We were talking about my friend [Fhqwhgads] at lunch, and someone asked how Fhqwhgads was doing, and someone else said, "Fhqwhgads is hanging on right now," and it was generally remarked upon that Fhqwhgads is the sort of person who always seems to be hanging on to life.

Fhqwhgads is very needy, emotionally and spiritually. A lot of the times, when you can classify your friends into people who invest and pour themselves into other people and people who need to be invested and poured into, Fhqwhgads falls squarely in the latter category. Fhqwhgads always ends up precariously balanced on razor-thin ice over a terrifying, rushing river of emotional and spiritual meltdown -- the world ends easily and often for Fhqwhgads. Fhqwhgads often seems unable to figure out the trick to living life. Fhqwhgads cries a lot.

According to Jesus, Fhqwhgads should be considered blessed because Fhqwhgads is poor in spirit and is one who mourns and therefore will have the Kingdom of Heaven and be comforted. Fhqwhgads should be considered like the Woman at the Well, whom Jesus meets directly and promises living water. Fhqwhgads should be considered like the tax collector who prayed with downcast eyes and went home justified instead of the righteous Pharisee. Fhqwhgads is the sort of broken that God can love the best.

If you don't know anyone like Fhqwhgads, then you don't know how hard it is to be Fhqwhgads's friend. It is a never-ending endeavor of forgiveness, humility, service, sacrifice, vulnerability, hardship, and love. It is difficult. Sometimes I fail and I think that Fhqwhgads is just a drain, not a giver or a source, someone who just needs and needs when all you do is give and give. God help us all when we think like that because it's hard not to sometimes. If I can't figure out why Fhqwhgads is blessed, and sometimes I really can't, then I'm no better off than Fhqwhgads.

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