Up To The Surface

I don’t want to be like… For the last several years, I’d say at least since 2007, I could compare myself with someone in the bible. Contrary to what you may be thinking, it isn’t one of the famous strong-willed heroines they always preach to women about. It’s actually a man. Don’t laugh. His name is Jonah. Know him? He’s famous for being told to go and do an important mission to help point a dangerous city in the right direction, but instead, he wussed out and hopped on the next boat to somewhere else. God, however, wasn’t going to let his missionary slip through his fingers that easily. He sent a storm to rock the boat and when Jonah figured out that the only way to stop it was to jump overboard, a giant fish swallowed him. Of course, the fish didn’t digest him. He sat stagnant in its guts until it either <puked him back out> or <blew him out through its blowhole> onto the shore… right near the town where Jonah was supposed to be headed in the first place. Your sins w...