Patience, grasshopper.
Comedians have this wonderful way of packaging up the human condition. They have this ability to poke fun at the flaws of our existence. The late comedian Mitch Hedberg once said, “I’m sick of following my dreams. I’ll just ask them where they’re going and hook up with ‘em later.” I have never found a more relatable joke in my life because I myself am a procrastinator. Hedberg wrote this to get a laugh out of every self-aware slacker in his audience, but what he was really doing was pointing out the incredible rift in the human soul between dreams and reality. There is nothing more evident in our culture today than to desire “success” and yet suffer the impatience and lack of discipline keeping us from it. Ponzi schemes are born on the backs of people wanting to make something of themselves, but not committed to understanding the cost, or even, the purpose. Much like Hedberg’s observation about human industry — or the lack thereof — is the narrow, lonely walk in Christ. Christians