So a friend* of mine, let's call her Jill, posted this on her facebook:
This is the day that the LORD has MADE, y'all! Phew! That was a close one!
She tagged her sister-in-law, Lucy, with whom I am also friends*. Lucy recently had a set of biopsies done on her liver, so I figured the results were in. After popping over to her page, I saw that she announced the metastasized spots were not cancer. Celebration, no doubt, is in order.
Jill, with her status update, was referencing an old hymn that goes:
this is the day that the lord has made, i will rejoice and be glad in it!
It is a bouncy, lively tune.
But, if the results were different, if Lucy were to have cancer, would those circumstances change the "maker" of today? Would it suddenly be the day the devil has made? (pause for theatrical gasps) Or would this family still rejoice, but in the fact that god has given them an awesome new trial to test their trust and dedication to his will? Would there still be status updates joyous exclaiming his goodness and omnipotence?
Man. Even since I stepped outside of the christian box, so much of that shit seems just loony tunes.
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* = friend, meaning person I grew up with in church and have had no contact with, except the occasional facebook comment, in the past five+ years
