I did some Christmas shopping on amazon.com this year. I'm sure you're familiar with amazon's personalized recommended list once you've browsed and shopped their website. Here are some of the things on my list:
1. I Love Lucy on DVD Season 5
2. Taylor Swift's CD: Speak Now
3. Apples to Apples Board Game
4. Lenox Simply Fine Chirp 4 piece Dining Set
5. Did Someone Step on a Duck? The Natural History of the Fart
6. Loves Enduring Promise by Janette Oke
7. Apple Ipod Nano
8. Inuyasha: Season 1 DVD
9. T-Fal Signature Hardware 12 Cookware Piece
10. Children's Ministry Volunteers that Stick by Jim Wideman
What's that you say? One of these things is not like the other? One of these things just doesn't belong? Yeah, I though the same thing. Anyone who knows me at all knows that I find nothing funny about farting. In fact, if anyone in my house thinks it might be funny to fart on my fantastic brand new couch I might lash out irrationally and throw them out of the house. Just ask Mark...when his siblings start a laughfest about farting I just about have a heart attack.
It started to really bother me that this book was on my recommended list. It just didn't reflect who I really was at all. Everything else on that list made total sense but that blemish of a book was making me crazy. And of course, I clicked on the book and read the description which of course then added other books like it to my growing list of books about farts. Before I knew it my recommended list looked like that of a stranger, nothing on there truly stood for anything I would purchase. This was bothering me tremendously.
I know it seems petty to be concerned with something so small but I began to equate this list and the things on it to how my life measures up before Christ. I started to wonder what friends and family would add to my recommended list if they could. What does this list truly say about who I am deep down inside? Does it show that I am a Christian, kind, compassionate, forgiving, a devoted parent and teacher? Or does it show my terrible temper, the occassional curse word, my complete and utter lack of patience? If others were to view my list would it matter what they thought? Should I care? Should I care if the list were shown to the world and everyone saw the fart book? Would I be embarassed if every sin I ever committed were exposed for the world to see?
Fortunately for me I can ask Christ for a redo. A clean slate, and new fresh start. He can take that stupid fart book along with every other thing that leaves me blemished and separated from Him and give me that fresh start.
What's on your amazon recommended list? Hopefully not a book about farting. But if there is, I'm sure Jesus has some Febreeze for it.
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