Stories and other stuff

 If you grew up in the 70's and 80's, you know the words of the title are a line from a movie.  A muppet said them to Luke Skywalker in the second Star Wars movie, which was #5 if you're binge watching the DVDs.  The young Skywalker told the Jedi Master that he was not afraid.  Yoda's reply was this:  "You will be.  You will be." Perhaps I've written about this before but I just saw a commercial again from Ron Reagan, who is unashamedly an atheist and to his own credit, at this point in his own life, he's not afraid of burning in hell. He's not afraid of it.  He's also acknowledging that's where he's headed.  I think it's easy to make stupid statements like that when you have no real concept of it.  Jesus described it as utter darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth a couple of times in parables he told.  He also used the parable of the rich man and Lazarus to describe what hell was like.  You can read the account...

I like to think I don't complain, then yesterday happened.  I had a chore at work I'd been trying, with varying stages of failure, to pawn off on someone else.  I was hoping somebody would like to take it on as a way to serve.  I was hoping someone would step forward and take that responsibility on for themselves.  I've been trying as long as I've been waiting for a warm day and the weather to change to do it.  And yesterday was the day. The thing is this, though:  The responsibility for the task being done was mine.  I was told by my predecessor that it would fall to me to ensure it was done.  And up to a couple of weeks ago, the task really didn't need to be done, but finally, the algae in the fish pond got to be too much.  I'd been talking about (which in hindsight, was me probably complaining) taking care of it.  And when I mentioned it on Wednesday night, the most unlikely volunteer I could have ever imagined showed up to help me....