ABC covered a new webpage the other day. The page is called My Parents Were Awesome http://myparentswereawesome.tumblr.com/ . Kids send in pictures of their parents from when the parents did not have kids and had a real (cool) life. It turns out that the worn out folks of today were actually awesome…once.
When we get close to someone, we begin to assume we know them, as if a person could be reduced to events or a stereotype. When we get close, we start asking less questions and start filling in blanks on our own. We can see this take place when a man and a woman spend every waking hour talking and getting to know one another only to get married and start the process of filling in the blanks instead of continuing to explore the mystery of the other person. Great marriages happen when the couple is bright enough to renew the questions.
You are still cool. God says so. And so are the other people we take for granted or who take us for granted. Today, look at someone close to you with fresh eyes and few assumptions. Then, look at someone in the news or a group of people (Liberals, Conservatives, black, white, Latino, gay, lesbian, old, young) you have pigeon-holed and ask God about what makes them "cool." In spite of some of the terribly ridiculous and hurtful things we do, we all are, at the heart, worth dying for. That's awesome
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