So, at church last night I decided to put some of my readers' advice into practice. We got to the sharing of the peace, and I made my way around the church, shaking hands and giving hugs to everyone. There was a bottleneck in one of the corners, and I got stuck behind a guy who was shaking everyone's hand. I was ready to head back to my seat, but I saw that if I skipped out of this traffic jam, I'd be skipping Jake (the snubber from earlier) entirely. I decided to stick it out, look him right in the eye, and shake his hand, offering God's peace.
I held out my hand, and he shook it, making eye contact for a millionth of a second before looking away--WAY away. I just confidently shook his hand and went back to my seat, smiling the whole way. Am I the bigger man in this situation? It would appear so, for once.
In other news, I stumbled across the truest headline I've ever seen in the NIU newspaper.
Truer words were never printed. Well, okay, so maybe there was a little more to this headline than I'm showing you, but they could have stopped there and no one would have argued.
Out
Start living in the future now.
19 hours ago
2 comments:
Justin, I thoroughly enjoyed your blog, that is, until I reached your newspaper clipping - horrible. And as far as no one arguing, that is certainly wrong. How could such things be said about the greatest sport in the world?
Anyway, I imagine there was a post that I should have read before this one (the reference to "snubber from earlier") but how sad it is when the passing of peace is not a time of reconciliation, but a time of harboring resentful feelings. Blessings to you as you offer this man God's peace, and your own.
Hey, thanks! I knew I'd get some blowback on the hockey thing. And, honestly, I don't really feel strongly about it either way. But I thought it was a fairly unfortunate way to start a headline.
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