The thought of having to wait for a slushie to be made appears to have been just too much to endure recently, so a McDonald’s customer physically assaulted the fast food worker. In another culinary conflict, an employee started punching a customer who had allegedly thrown a milkshake on her. We’re living in a day when passions are running roughshod over reason, where tantrums erupt over trivia, and where thoughtful debate has been tossed aside in favor of blaring out intractable demands with bullhorns. It seems as though qualities like social courtesy have slipped into the category of whimsical nostalgia, joining the list of things we enjoyed back in the “good ole’ days.”
Overworked Emotions ~
With so many issues from politics to the plastic straw crisis pulling at our emotional 
apparatus, exploring how to deal with passion from God’s point of view is worthwhile, and some admonitions from the book of James are especially helpful. On the one hand, God offers positive approval for passion with James’ affirmation that the effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much (James 5:16, NKJV). But He also discourages yielding to Continue reading
the effort. I much prefer writing about light-hearted, funny stuff. I like exploring intriguing, off-the-beaten-path topics, and I like looking for interesting new perspectives on familiar issues. I like writing about those kinds of things for the same reason that I prefer pizza over an okra and eggplant smoothie. But God has taken care to remind me repeatedly that He didn’t send me into the world to 
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natural habitat could be problematic, so my buddies pooled their knowledge and gave me advance warning about what to expect. “Yankees,” they said, “dress funny; they don’t eat grits; they don’t know how to 
