03/10/2024 - Passion Despite Pride

Peter said to Jesus, "Even though all become deserters, I will not." -Mark 14:26-31 I made a fool of myself this week. On the phone with a friend, I mentioned that I never ask Jonathan to feed the baby at night because “He’s just too loud. He doesn’t know how to get out of bed quietly without waking me up. So it’s not worth asking him.” Lo and behold, when I got up to feed the baby later that night, I tripped on a shoe. That shoe caused me to do that awkward half-stomp-half-run thing to keep myself from falling. And for some added flair, somehow I accidentally slammed the bedroom door on my way out. Not only did I wake Jonathan up, but my oversized dog came galloping down the hall to see what the commotion was while the baby let out a dramatic gasp from her nursery. Apparently, I’m worse at getting up quietly than my husband. Whoops. Of course, you don’t have to be married with a baby to have a similar experience. There’s something hardwired in our brains that makes us think better of ourselves than others. Cue the song, “Anything you can do, I can do better. I can do anything better than you…” [Continue reading at https://www.fbcmuncie.org/blog]