Bum Fighting

We are all God's creatures.  God gets props for his infinite wisdom and his unqualified love for everyone.  He does not get enough recognition for the magnificent sense of humor that he has.  He will bring the occasional shitbag, dickhead, just plain mean, stupid, or clueless people into your life from time to time. This is to exercise your free will.  This is Gods way of seeing if you will participate in the spiritual form of Bum Fighting.  

When two bums fight, you never think that one of them is right, you only see a pathetic bum fight.  There are plenty of times to fight for what is right.  But most of us spend far too much time fighting or arguing with the people who are not the least bit interested in anything except being right.  Being right at the expense of another person, is never going to be the right thing.  Being right is always going to be a bit of a compromise.  It is not planting your flag at the top of the mountain, it is helping another fat ass climb the mountain.  You will see more bum fights in times of great stress or trial.  You can also be drawn  into a bum fight pretty quickly by the family and friends you love the most - be careful of that.  I have included here the Prayer of Saint Francis, who aside from being the patron saint for animals is also the patron saint of bum fights.  Prayer is good for pre and post bum fighting.  The only thing worse than bum fighting is not recognizing when you have been in one.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,

Where there is hatred, let me sow love;

Where there is injury, pardon;

Where there is doubt, faith;

Where there is despair, hope;

Where there is darkness, light;

Where there is sadness, joy.

grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;

to be understood, as to understand;

to be loved, as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,

and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.

Amen.

 

Love Dad