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I read 5 psalms every morning. Once again, this is not because I am this really spiritual person, but that I'm actually a fucking lunatic and I think this helps. Anyhow, I read the 25th psalm this morning and was struck by this line: May integrity and uprightness preserve me for I wait for you (verse 21). I 'm pretty much against preservatives in food. All that added junk in the processed foods we eat is problematic, however, I love this idea of integrity as a preservative. Perhaps having integrity preserves us from rotting. I have countless opportunities daily to choose to have integrity or not: do I show kindness to those I interact with, including really slow cashiers and bad drivers? Do I buy stuff I don't need with money I don't really have? Do I pass up the opportunity to talk smack about someone who "really deserves it"? Do I put down my lap-top and jump on the trampoline with my kids? Do I act graciously toward conservative evangelicals? Perhaps these are all opportunities I have to preserve myself from rotting.....I think everytime I act with integrity and uprightness, I recieve preservatives from God which protect me from the hatred, greed, and malice of the world and indeed, of myself. It is not as though I earn these preservatives by my thoughts and actions, only that I am then in a posture of recieving them
beautifully said
Posted by: Baboo | July 06, 2006 at 05:21 PM