Hamilton just came out on Disney + and if it is anything like other Disney movies, those songs are going to be on repeat for a long while. They are going to be played at home, in your cars, at your workplace, and pretty soon they will be playing on repeat in your head. Eventually, they will randomly get stuck in your head without invitation. This “earworm”, or “brainworm” as it is sometimes called, could be a song that takes you back to a time that makes you smile or reminds you of a memory. But occasionally you get songs stuck in your head that you may not necessarily like or want to be stuck in your head (don’t worry, I’m not talking about Hamilton songs). You are forced to keep coming back to them. For me, this happens with thoughts too. A thought can break through the monotony of other thoughts and capture your attention so that you can no longer ignore it. Over the past few months, there has been a thought that keeps coming back up, uninvited, begging for my attention. This is much more persistent than any Disney song that gets stuck in my head for only a few hours. The thought that has been stuck in my head, continually coming back no matter how many times I pushed it aside, was a verse. Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. -- Hosea 2:14
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Growing up, as any old kid being raised in the 90’s, there were certain rules about dinner time. For instance, we had to eat everything on our plate, even if we didn’t like it. I remember shoveling food in my mouth, hoping if I ate it fast enough that I wouldn’t be able to taste it.
Sidenote: my mom is an excellent cook, so it was rare that we didn’t want to eat everything on our plate, but you have to have broccoli every once in awhile. So back to eating everything on our plate. There were nights that no matter what was on our plate, we were going to eat it. Dessert nights. We knew we weren’t going to get dessert without eating what was on our plate, and so the reward was worth whatever “suffering” we had to endure to earn it.
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