learning from house

One of the best things to have in life is a friend, someone to talk to, share you life, get mad at, fight with, grow up with... For many people this is true, for many more its not.

In our lives we will have the choice or choices as to who this person, or people if you're lucky will be. Sometimes we don't choose them, they choose us. Sometimes there's no choice.

I've been watching house and the medical stuff is interesting if that floats your boat but for me its the life stuff, the perceptions, beliefs and values that this particular man has built his life around. I find him incredible the way he is attracted to the more difficult cases and how he somehow finds a solution making him ultimately indispensable to the hospital.

Life is not so simple and the values and ideas we hold on to are sometimes challenged and we have to make a choice whether to continue holding on to them or embrace something new, to ask the hard questions about what we really believe and why.

In this particular episode there's a girl who was raped and she wound up with house, there was something about him that attracted her to him and through the encounter was able to challenge him on some of the fundamental ideas he held, made the closed up coop open up to reveal a dark past.

When things go bad, someone disappoints you, a close friend becomes distant, there's betrayal and stuff like that its easy to find shelter and safety inside your own shell and decide thats it, i won't open up to anyone again, how can i trust anyone again. Sure your life may never be the same again but it would be a terrible shame to allow the things people do to you to alter the person you were meant to be.

Sure this is an incredibly difficult thing to do and dare i say almost impossible but therein lies the test of knowledge. If you know who i am and my purpose in this world and what talents and gifts God has given me to share then it makes no difference whether i am praised to scorned, whether someone is being nice to or not, whether they deserve a second chance or not, whether i should right them off or not. It makes no difference and the decision to love them regardless should make sense.

As i write this i'm also reminded of people i need to forgive and let go. I was reminded on Sunday that even Jesus had the scars on him hands and feet where they hurt him, so its ok if we remember those scars but he didn't hold anything against them and i should do the same.

My view of the world is constantly being redefined, and the more i experience the more challenging it is to actually give that gift, that talent that is inherent in my life out to anyone who needs it, to share and not hoard, to let go, to do the right thing. Its interesting how its immensely easier to do the wrong thing whereas it take a whole lot of effort to do the right thing. But in the end its so worth all the effort.

I hope this brings comfort to someone, even though i have a propensity to be vague most of the time but to close a quote that a love.

Faith never gives up,
it knows that despite appearances all is well.

God bless you.

~shalom~