As a wonderful person told me last night, "The Bachelor is like cocaine."
Potent, strong, addictive, harmful.
Words from Naomi, the most recent girl to be kicked off (she was one of the last 4 - she took the guy home to meet her family this week) were something to the effect of "I don't know what I'm doing. I didn't let my guard down before because I didn't want to get hurt. I let my guard down this time and this is what happens. I don't know where to go from here."
Seriously, the show messes people up. Including the people who watch because suddenly we are ready for picture perfect dates with picture perfect people and suddenly it's normal to make out with 10 girls at the same time? Who said this was reality?
Also, today I was able to watch a paranoid schizophrenic interact with her hallucinations. If this doesn't change your perception on how hopeless the world is without Jesus, I don't know what will. Let's just say I am thanking God for my mental stability but totally at a loss for how to respond to such sadness.
This week I have been struck by the flippancy we use with others' hearts. People hurt other people, and it sucks.
The only thing that gives me hope in this all comes from my most wonderful Bible study, which conveniently happened earlier this evening.
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it...But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, not of blood nor of the will of flesh nor of the will of man, but of God...For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
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