Funny on Friendship (just had to post this)

Got an email from my daughter today. I liked so much of it, I'm posting it. It's all good, but I really like the very end.



1. When you are sad,

I will jump on the person

who made you sad

like a spider monkey

jacked up on Mountain Dew!!!


2. When you are blue,

I will try to dislodge

whatever is choking you.


3. When you smile,

I will know you are

plotting something

that I must be involved in.


4. When you're scared,

we will high tail it out of here.


5. When you are worried,

I will tell you horrible stories about how much worse

it could be until you quit whining, ya big baby!!!!


6. When you are confused,

I will use little words.


7. When you are sick,

Stay away from me until you are well again.

I don't want whatever you have.


8. When you fall,

I'll pick you up and dust you off--

After I laugh my butt off!!


9. This is my oath...

I pledge it to the end.

'Why?' you may ask;

-- because you are my FRIEND!

---

Friendship is like peeing your pants,

everyone can see it,

but only YOU

can feel the

true warmth.

Do, Believe, Feel, Know . . .

1) It seems to me that most pastors/preachers see "belief" as what comes first. "If you'll believe _________, then you WILL [insert desired action here]."

2) It seems to me that there's always an order, a sequence, to these things. The old "Faith - Facts - Feelings" train (or was it Fact - Faith - Feelings? and what kind of mode-of-transportation doesn't have a Do?)

So where does the phrase "I have come to believe..." fit in? Isn't that phrase used, typically, after some kind of "Do" (or, gasp, "Feel") episode?


Perhaps the request to be so linear/sequential and to always start with our rational side (belief, thoughts) is not the best. Perhaps it's not even human. Did we just pick the wrong 'order' - or is there not to be an 'order' but maybe just a 'set'?