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A. Have any rational person spend one day with a cat
B. Let dogs be dogs
C. Start the rumor on social media that cat skins are very valuable
D. Have your cat live near a Chinese restaurant
E. Nurture a virus in your laboratory that loosens paw fur–then pull with delight
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Futility is the soul-gobbling bacteria that carves out the insides of human hope, leaving emptiness.
Yesterday, G-Pop took a little trip over to Bronner’s Christmas Store in Frankenmuth, Michigan. Such a festive time.
Still, it was fraught with inconvenience. Checking out at Customer Service ended up being a rather arduous task, as some mistakes were made by staff. Yet it is difficult to be fussy when Nat King Cole is singing about roasted chestnuts.
Leaving the fantasy world, lunch was procured at a Chinese restaurant. Upon departure, G-Pop discovered that the old black van refused to start. Either the battery was dead or the starter was gone. G-Pop found this distressing because the previous day he’d had repair done on some belts.
He began to feel that odd tingle of futility. Even though he knew that things always work out eventually, being left in the lurch certainly appeared to be unrighteous.
G-Pop forgot the cardinal lesson of Earth journey: No matter what I do, I will do more, so I better enjoy doing it.
Forgetting this abiding notion led to two dastardly conclusions:
1. It’s not fair
2. It’s not possible
So what was G-Pop supposed to do?
Fortunately, there are dual ways of escape from the fracture of futility:
A. If you’re being slowed down, then stop.
In other words, if for some reason you find yourself on the bad end of a deal, it does not help to double down. Go ahead and stop.
G-Pop just sat in his van for about two minutes, considering options. Fortunately for him, he was in the middle of a commercial region, and there was a car dealership across the street. So on to Step 2.
B. While you are stopped, take inventory.
What did G-Pop have?
He had two friends with him–one who was more than willing to go across the street and procure help. Apparently it was a very slow day in Frankenmuth car land, because in no time at all, there were four agents from the dealership gathered around the van, trying to figure out how to fix it.
It was determined that a starter was needed, so one was procured, and fortunately, was so easy to put on that the vehicle didn’t even need to leave the parking lot.
In less than an hour, G-Pop and friends were on their way.
Now granted–it was too expensive, and the dealership people were grinning the whole time because they were making a killing. Sometimes that’s just the price for peace of mind.
For after all, futility is the little piece of arrogance we save back for those occasions when we believe that God is not doing His job.
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