“Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.”
― Martin Luther
Now this is advice I can follow, my man Martin. No problemo. Okay, okay, I drink root beer and just sip a little bit of the happy juice to avoid taking the off-ramp to Barf City, but the "sport, recreate and even sin a little" (a little? #Clears throat# You want to define "a little"? -- our definitions may vary) I can definitely go for. Anyway, it's always something. God didn't give us life just so we could mope, look down at the floor and sigh. We should be like pixies dancing on a leaf in a ray of sunshine and enjoy our flash of light between the two great darks.
“Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall."
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“A person who does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God must be a clodhopper indeed."
― Martin Luther
"I want to be pure in heart, but I like to wear my purple dress."
―Anne Morrow Lindbergh
This may seem like a frivolous post, but reality is tough and often disappointing, sometimes bitterly so, so from time to time you need to break out of your harness, kick down the stall door and make a dash for freedom, exulting in living, simply being alive. You'll be back under the yoke soon enough. There's no escaping that.
