Lightweights

I went to a wedding recently. We had to deal with some lightweights. It was fun though. It’s not that I want my friends to be alcoholics, but if they do over do it, we need to be prepared. Good thing they had a room to go to, otherwise we would have all had to go home early.

Not that drinking is the only place a person can be a lightweight. Some are emotional lightweights. You can put on Kevlar vests and carry weapons but only God can heal your real heart. The armor cannot protect you from emotional damages. Some drink to fight off the bad feelings, but in the morning they are still there. That is a very immature way of dealing with things. Instead of facing them head on, they need to be softened by an alcohol buzz. Only prayer helps you to face things head on, otherwise all of us would resort to drugs.


Others are lightweights when it comes to helping out. They will only do a little and then stop. For some reason these people are also the biggest talkers. They act like they do tons of things, but its all talk. People that really do things don’t have to make you think they did stuff, they show you what they have done. Here is the cabin I built; here is the dish I cooked. If you only hear about what they do and never see them in action, how can you know if they really did anything? Martha Stewart shows all the stuff she does, but you know she can’t do it all alone. She hires staff to do the gardening while she does the TV Show. Plus she has more than on house, she can’t clean them all herself.

Then there is the worst, the religious lightweight. The one that has no faith and doesn’t believe in God at all, like not believing is going to make Him not exist. It seems that disbelief in God helps people commit crimes and produce horrible weapons. If there is no one to be accountable to and we are the only ones here, than it’s easier to hate others.

We all have things we need to work on. No one is perfect, but maybe we can just do one good thing every day. Whatever you believe, it’s never wrong to do the right thing. We can be heavyweights in the art of compassion.