My mom never buys good cereal. She always buys like Total and crap like that..it sucks. She will mix it up like every 2 years or something so we are on Total right now, although she has made a somewhat progressive move to Honey-Nut Cheerios over the last year or so. Sugar cereal...I'm so spoiled. Anyway, I always eat them because that is the best thing to have for breakfast...its not Total, basically. The crazy thing is that I eat it so much but I never really get tired of it and that blows my mind because if you ate this cereal as long as I have, then you would be tired of it but I'm just not. I tell you this to relay a really strange epiphany that I had, a minor one really but none the less. As I was eating my cereal, I started thinking about all this not getting tired of the cereal business and actually like got spiritual on my cheerios. I thought to myself how I am kinda like a bowl of HNC's and God is the big guy with the spoon. Not saying God is a cannibal but more along the lines of how God doesn't get tired of me. He doesn't get tired of you or anyone else because he is so merciful. He has an incredible patience for us that we really don't and never will be able to understand and for that I am grateful. He shows us so many times how He is gonna stick it out with us not give up, not go buy a new box. Also, the Honey-Nut Cheerios describe humans so much..we aren't anything special but he keeps coming back. I mean, we are no Fruity Pebbles or Cinnamon Toast Crunch but he still takes us in day after day regardless. This was all very strange to me but honestly it was really cool to think about it in that small, goofy way. God has so much patience and mercy for us that we take for granted everyday and I count myself blessed to be able to see that in a bowl of cereal...
This same day, I decided that I was lazy and needed to get back to reading so I chose a book that I have already read but one that I didn't read that closely. It is also a good book to get me back in the joyous spirit because of the humor and the deep thoughts all together. In the first chapter of Searching For God Knows What, Donald Miller talks about the idea of Christianity as being pinned down by certain formulas. He visits this conference and the speaker there tells them that to be successful in writing a good Christian book, it must be structured off and Miller disagrees and I love it. He relates writing this book to how faith really is and he talks about how it shouldnt be do this do that, it is a free flowing relationship, not a set of laws. You have to find God not just obey him because without finding him you miss the beauty of what He is all about. The intro to his first book nails it...he talks about how your faith should be 'blue like jazz'. That is talking about how jazz music is so free and rythmic and good..there is no pattern, it is just the soul speaking put to music and that is just how one's faith should appear...not some strict, uptight do-gooder but a loose, smiling, laughing servant who does things for the glory of God and loves every minute of it. Why? Because the person who does this has truly surpassed a set of rules and stepped into the relationship that makes things click and makes things beautiful.
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