Is It Really Okay?

I am getting ready for work and just heard a commercial for a TV show. One line in particular caught my attention, “He’s a jerk, but he’s also a genius – so it’s okay.” Is it really okay?

Why do we stratify behavior that way? You are really smart and have a prestigious job so you can behave however you want. You are not a genius, didn’t score 800 on your SATs, don’t have a prestigious position so you have to behave differently. How in the world does that make sense?
The birth of Jesus, announced by angels to the shepherds – by angels! These were not the societal cream of the crop. Hanging out with smelly sheep, not considered to be politically or socially acceptable, the birth of Jesus was announced to them! Talk about blowing away the preconceptions of our little minds.


Lord, please don’t let my preconceptions and small mindedness get in your way!

The Rules

Have you ever heard something about the social rules of things?  Perhaps it is clothed in a nickname like society or expectations or normal.  The authority that comes behind this is from the famous and at times infamous and always vague they.

They say that you should do this.

---- They say you should do that.

----    ---- Don’t wear this!

----     ----    ---- Did you hear?

The little phrases can turn our lives upside down as the they governed rules are applied to our lives.  I have looked at my own life many times in that light and can hear the they in my head. 

However, the they and the rules is such a lie!  While there are real society rules which do help define a sense of common culture, they can become a lachrymose lie hanging over our heads and hearts.  Laugh a deep laugh, a laugh that comes all the way from your toes as you look at the silliness of those rules and then you decide!