My Favorite Part of Me.

I just dropped some serious coin into my car today. If it wasn't such a sweet ride... I'd be a little bit upset...

Anyway.
Due to this little mishap I also missed my second job meeting. For the first meeting I was almost late and parked in the wrong place. I'm off to a good start.
Let's just say it was a rough day.
I felt like it was the worst day. On days like these, I think about how much of a loser I am. I make terrible decisions. I'm flaky and unorganized. Everyone is a better writer. Everyone else has their life together. I have no skills. And I'm slightly unbalanced. Just slightly.
How do I get to this place?
Sometimes I honestly think I am unbalanced after episodes like this. But maybe it's good for me. Good for me to be reminded of my loser-status. Beneficial to remind me that I'm not that special, talented or wonderful. Shane and Shane pretty much sum it up with,

What it is I’m trying to say
Is you are my favorite part of me [Holiday, Pages Album]

I've got nothing.
Without Jesus. He's the glue that's holding this whole thing together. So I guess what it is I'm trying to say is that I need some balance. I need something good in me. And I find that in a guy who lead a revolution a few thousand years ago, bringing a new way and redeeming this feeble attempt I am presently making to live a life that means something.

I've been reading this almost every day lately, and since it holds more goodness and wisdom than I could write, I thought I'd put it here:

Isaiah 55

Invitation to the Thirsty

1 "Come, all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost.
2 Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.

3 Give ear and come to me;
hear me, that your soul may live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
my faithful love promised to David.

4 See, I have made him a witness to the peoples,
a leader and commander of the peoples.

5 Surely you will summon nations you know not,
and nations that do not know you will hasten to you,
because of the LORD your God,
the Holy One of Israel,
for he has endowed you with splendor."

6 Seek the LORD while he may be found;
call on him while he is near.

7 Let the wicked forsake his way
and the evil man his thoughts.
Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,"
declares the LORD.

9 "As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.

10 As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,

11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

12 You will go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills
will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field
will clap their hands.

13 Instead of the thornbush will grow the pine tree,
and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be for the LORD's renown,
for an everlasting sign,
which will not be destroyed."