not letting evil win
So the day after Mark emailed me, I watched part of the game (since he was so excited because it was his first game back). I only watched a bit (because their commentators are so boring - definitely not Bert and Dick), but in that little bit, he was playing.Anyway, so Mark was being all defensey, and first boring commentator said: 'Oh, Mad Dog's really getting under [whatever the other guy's name was]'s skin.'
Second boring commentator: 'It's interesting because off the court Mad Dog doesn't get under anyone's skin.'
First boring commentator: 'No he doesn...he gets under the skin of evil.'
Of course, my first thought was, 'Wow, that was cheesy.' Then 'Yeah, but it's true because he's such a nice guy.' Then 'Oh. Do I get under the skin of evil? Or do I not irritate evil at all because I just let it have it's way with me - do I just ignore it and not fight? Oh. Yuck.'
So I am now reading 'The Screwtape Letters' to see ways in which I let evil win. I don't want it to win. I want to, cheesy at it sounds, get under the skin of evil.
posted by melilotnfosco | 4:35 PM
17 Comments:
very good point (even if it is cheesy;)... i don't think i do either :( (but go you thinking about it & doing something about it!:)
well - i don't know how much i'm doing about it. i'm reading about it, though, which may be a start.
starting's often the hardest! (at least for me)
we can im here! ;)
i think we kind of are :)
my time ends in a couple minutes, though.
aw :( ...our library's closing early today b/c of the snow/ice -- even the MALL is closing at 5! Can you believe that?!
wow. too bad that wouldn't happen here. then i could get iced in. (but again, i'd still have to go to work. i'd get out of babysitting tonight, though. but this is a good group of kids i think, so it shouldn't be too bad. i just really wish i could sleep instead. i'm pooped.)
I got up at noon. :D (well, technically at 6 to answer the phone call telling me the offices were closed;) But I went outside just a little bit ago, and almost fell in the parking lot even though they've been working on it all day! So I can understand why they canceled so much!
(I wonder what tomorrow will be like.;)
one more thought, then i have to go:
once in college there was a really icey day. everyone fell at least twice on their way to class, if not more (i knew one girl who hit the ground 7 times). i had lunch with some friends in the cafeteria, then left at the same time as plaid. we were walking down the steps (which are wide, with no handrail), and he got to the bottom before me. he then turned around, put his hand out, and helped me down the rest of the way. see? he's great.
interesting... (*raised eyebrow*;)
you raise a good point, mel, but i still think "he gets under the skin of evil" is really cheesy
yup REALLY cheesy, but it's nice that other people have noticed that way he lives his life. I want to be like that!
Don't read that book at night. It is super good, but will definatly freak you out if you read it before you go to sleep.
'screwtape letters' is really good - it gives you a lot to think about - but it took me a little while to get into it because you have to think backwards when you read it (because it's so well-written!)
tolkien didn't like it because he felt that lewis was delving too deep into the mind of evil. and yet lewis dedicated the book to him. how rude is that?
I guess they were just good enough friends to be that honest with each other. We all need Christian friends like that;)
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