You made me look like a fool last night!

My freshmen year in college my best friend introduced to me the movie "Nacho Libre". She prefaced it as being a "great movie with a very spiritual message." She wasn't wrong. Though, you do have to be looking for the spiritual themes. The story is about a Catholic monk in Mexico who decides he wants to be a luchador. He also falls in love with a nun, Encarnosio, in the process, but being a monk and nun their romance is kind of doomed from the start. At one point he tries to impress the nun but fails miserably and tells his friend, "you made me look like fool last night!" you really have to see it for it to be funny. That's what you should do after reading this, go watch Nacho Libre. As I'm about to head back to school I have been reflecting over my summer. Unfortunately, more times than not, I feel like my subconscious is telling me, "you made you look like a fool last night!" All those cringe worthy moments. Putting my foot in my mouth, doing things for attention, trying to be something I'm not to impress people. Everyone has had moments like these. I don't know about you, but when these things happen to me and I realize them, I want to crawl under a rock and never come out. Or in more recent weeks move to Costa Rica and live with the sloths. Have you seen them? They're soooo adorable! But, I digress. The night that I looked at my summer and thought how much I mucked up some moments I read this story in Mark: The Healing Of the Demon-possessed man. If you haven't read it you can read it in Mark 5. The gist is, this guy is possessed by lots of demons and makes him run around naked in the tombs. When Jesus comes to visit he sends the demons into a herd of pigs and the man is free and worships Jesus. As I read this I thought about how great Jesus is that he can just command demons to leave and they do. Then it hit me, the God who healed and loved a man who ran naked around a bunch of graves is the God who loves me even when I run around making a mess of things. I don't know what's going on in your life but if you feel down on yourself because you feel you've messed some stuff remember the God loves you just as much as the demon possessed man and He will heal you of your wounds (even self inflicted). So next time you feel a little Nacho coming on and you feel like you looked like a fool, remember God loves you and he can turn what ever you've done around.