I'm not a concise person and can never come up
with anything pithy enough that leaves me feeling satisfied.
so eh.
I've been selling my old stuff on eBay these last couple weeks.
Frankly, I just own too much stuff. That always convicts me.
And half this stuff I've way out-awesomed and am way too cool to be associated with it anymore.
I sold The Muppet Movie soundtrack to a chickadee in Australia for $81! Recession my butt!
I listen to an Australian country station sometimes and apparently they're all recessed-up like the US, buuuut I'm just not feeling it!
That's not the most I've ever sold a CD for though.
I sold a Caedmon's Call cd for around $100 bucks a few years ago. It was an old independent album that I'd picked up in a used cd store for a few bucks a long time ago.
Another story with a moral:
Some dude bid on 15 of my cds last week, and it perplexed me because it was a quite a melange of genres. It ranged from old-school crappy Christian music to old-school pretty decent Christian music to soft, sulty music to vocal music to.....Tears for Fears? yes. Tears for Fears. And not even one of their decent albums.
I found that intriguing.
So the auctions ended and i got a message on ebay...turns out this guy is
the annoying guy i used to WORK WITH!
That blew my mind for the rest of the day.
He just lives over in South Garland too. So nuts.
but that certainly explains the variety in music. He's peculiar.
But the moral of this story for me goes like this:
This guy is the nicest guy you've ever met, unbelievably friendly, and a brother in Christ.
Yet I also found him to be the most annoying man ever and would find myself looking for another job just to get away from him.
He sat 5 feet away from me and we faced each other, so I got to watch him eat and nap all day.
He's a large, large man. (I mean that as no insult, honestly.)
Oh mercy and he chewed like it an olympic sport. He could make a eating a marshmellow sound like he was chewing on gravel. no joke.
And the list goes on and on....he irritated me and I'd go home with stress in my shoulders every night.
I only worked with him for about 6 months. He never really did any work and I think he knew he was going to get fired so he quit and went back to the Helpdesk, which honestly, he was perfectly suited for.
But when i found out that HE was the one who'd bought all my cds, I took it as a gentle reminder from the Lord of my attitude back then and how I need to be more loving to everyone.
Even those who make me want to punch myself in the face.
Even those who are other Believers (who, honestly, I can have a harder time loving and being patient...and something else I realized through this)
It felt like a gentle reminder from the Lord of who I want to be, and how I-I-I need to be more like Commodore, because he was very, very full of grace and love. He knew how to love people.
There was also a lesson in there for me about not being rude about people even in my own head.
It's easier to be loving outwardly than inwardly. I want to take every thought captive.
So I spent some time thinking about him and trying to learn from the example that he was.
God's weird.
He's very odd in how He chooses to teach us lessons.
Or maybe that's just me because I'd ridiculously stubborn.
oh! and i kinda-sorta fell off a treadmill last week at the gym. thought you should know that.
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