The Good Kind of Vomit
HURLLLL!!!
There’s a good kind of vomit.
Every day, I wake up and go about my business. I’ll go to work, or more recently, class, and go though the motions of life. Like anyone else, I try to be the best Christian I can be. Some days I’m good, and some days I’m not so good. And at the end of the day, I go to sleep, so that I can repeat this process anew tomorrow.
Sound familiar?
But there’s always something else that never gets mentioned. There’s always that part of you that keeps you scraping against the runway, dying to take off.
Burdens.
We all carry a load. You can pretend you don’t, but I can promise you, you’re only fooling yourself.
Unfortunately for all of us, time doesn’t “fix” anything. Time pushes things in whatever direction they were already headed. You can’t hide your burdens and expect them to go away.
How many thousands of days more do you want to wake up knowing that inside, your heart is crushed under an insurmountable load?
Vomit.
Vomit, vomit, vomit. That is my advice. (NOT Gastrointestinally, of course)
Recently I was talking with a friend of mine, a Christian, and he was telling me about something (can’t remember). Neither of us remembers how it happened (GOD), but all of a sudden, we realized we shared almost the exact same burden.
VOMIT.
All the emotion came out of both of us at once, and the walls came down. We laid down our burdens. I proceeded to vomit emotion for about 15 minutes. I knew that I didn’t have to explain it to him, but I did, because I wanted to hear him acknowledge it.
And he did. And each affirmation built upon the last like a ladder, helping me to climb out of the muck.
People often ask me what it means to be a Christian (often other Christians do). This is it.
Shared burdens.
We can go on debating eschatology or the god-forsaken abortion issue for the billionth time…but this is what it’s about.
It’s about saying, “Hey, you know that thing that’s destroying you inside? It’s destroying me too! Let’s work on this together with God.”
Do it.
Get your life back.
You can’t go on living like this forever…
And you know it.
Praise God!
Amen.