Jonah Was the Worst Bible Character, IMHO
And it turns out, I’m a lot like Jonah
A Whale of a Tantrum
I had a Jonah moment, a while back. It didn’t come in the fashion you might think — not the fashion I would’ve expected, either. God didn’t call me to go do something big or significant that I didn’t want to do. I was just going about my day, doing the small, ordinary things — things that I really didn’t mind doing, for the most part. In fact, the only reason I recognized it as a Jonah moment was because God allowed me to see what I wouldn’t have seen on my own.
“Seventy-eight degrees? How in the world — the air is set to seventy-four, and it’s seventy-freaking-eight degrees in here, right now! It’s so freaking hot in this house!”
“It’s not that hot in the bedroom. Why don’t you stay there and cool off for a bit while the rest of the house cools down?” (My poor, sweet husband, offering a reasonable solution.)
“It shouldn’t have to cool down! That’s the thing!”
“Christina, the stove was on. That always makes the house warmer, this time of day.”
“It shouldn’t, though! Our AC unit should be big enough to handle me making dinner! Why is everything so much harder than it has to be! Nothing is easy! Literally everything is more…
