People Watching, A.K.A Judging people walking by

I was reading Michael Kelley’s blog this morning, trying to get going here in the office, and his morning thought got me thinking, “What are different ways we disguise our judging?” For me I think I call it people watching. On those days when I am trying to survive the mall, one of my favorite things to do is watch people. I am always intrigued by the people I see around me. I try to figure out how they are connected to the people they are with and whether or not they realize how ridiculous they look. Things like, “Is she his daughter or his newest trophy?” “How in the world did he end up dating her?” or “Does that little nerd realize wearing shorts down to his ankles and his hat kicked to the side have absolutely no way of making him cooler or earning him any street cred?” “Does she know those knee high furry boots look silly when its 95 outside?”

Until this morning, I think I thought this was just a way to pass the time stuck in the first layer of purgatory known as the mall. But now I am fairly sure it is simply judgement wearing one of those little fake noses with the mustache attached to it. So that thought got me thinking, I wonder what other sins disguise themselves as harmless critters, such as the wombat, when in fact they are deadly viscous creatures. Check my previous post about these critters.

What do you think? How have some sins inserted themselves into your life wearing a clever disguise? It seems tough enough to deal with the sins we recognize yet still fail to deal with properly without these disguised sins coming to light. It makes Christ’s death and His righteousness even greater and more necessary.

 

I’m Back!!!

I am not sure why, but I have not written anything in over a month. I guess after taking that long off, there are so many things I want to write about that the pile simply built up too large to manage. Every time I would sit down to write there were too many things and too little time so I would simply get up and go do something else. But, all the recent activity on my blog has coaxed me out of my cave and I will resume my posting with a new found energy. 

I am not sure why, but my post about Wombat love has been hit a ton lately. A busy day on my blog was about 50, but lately the Wombat has been generating many responses so I want to know where all you people are from? Why were you searching for the wombat? I am just curious and think it would be cool to get some comments from my friends in the UK.

I thought I had heard it all!

In the past two weeks the lady that had been on the toilet for over two years has been making headlines. I thought it was the craziest story I had heard in a while, but if you check the news sites very often, there’s always something crazy going on. In that spirit, I will be sifting through the crazies to find stories that are fascinating to me. Some may be ridiculous like the “toilet lady” or just articles I find interesting. Feel free to add let me know when you find one worthy of the list.

While the toilet story stills ranks in first place, this one from today is definitely worthy of the list. I seriously thought Law and Order had shown every possible way for a crime to be committed, with their 10 different shows consuming about 25% of the airtime now that USA runs them all day, but this one was new to me. A man in Australia claimed he was sexually assaulted by a wombat.

Click here to read more of this intirguing story. My favorite part is at the end when alcohol is blamed as having played major role in this story. You think? He also claims to now be able to speak Australian.

A woman sits on the toilet for two years and a man is violated by a wombat. What is wrong with people? Maybe she should have tried some Ex-Lax and he should have tried the Rosetta Stone software if wanted to learn a new language.