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Ever have one of these days?

When you open up your fortune cookie (irony alert: never actually seen one in China) and you see:

Fortune cookie day

Fortune cookie day

If you’re having a post-Easter “wrong cookie” day, the hope of the empty tomb covers this too. True that each “cookie” you crack will come with a different fortune, but none can really be wrong because there is

Nothing

Noone

Nowhere

that can’t be reached by redemption.

And it gets better … the Comforter is coming, just you wait!

{Still, those “wrong cookie” days aren’t fun.}

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I feel mildly compelled to tell you that this cookie was opened by a five year old niece and it went right over her head. I basically snatched it out of her hands when I saw it. Working on impulse control :)

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What kind of a fortune cookie day are you having?

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6 Comments April 1, 2013

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My name is Amy and I live in the messy middle of life. I have been Redeemed from permanent muck and live with the tension of the Already and Not Yet.

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  1. Cynthia says

    April 2, 2013 at 12:06 am

    Yesterday, started out as a “wrong cookie day” but ended as a “you landed where you needed to day.”

    On “moving day,” walking into the boys’ (Sebas/Mauri) dishevelled, not nearing packed apartment evoked a myriad of responses: dumbfoundness-sheer lack of orgnization/cleaning on their part, frustration/anger-expectation that Marco and I would “fix” things, sadness-one brother left the other to figure things out while he went to work.

    As the day progressed, the emotions turned to: compassion-they needed Marco and I to guide them, love-hugging one of the boys as he poured out his heart about how he’s been feeling lately, joy-being invited into these relationships has been/continues to be a journey with unexpected rewards :)

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    • Amy says

      April 2, 2013 at 3:45 pm

      Wow … that’s a several cookie day :) (maybe in more ways than one!)

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  2. LeAnne P says

    April 8, 2013 at 2:41 pm

    The last week has seemed like a wrong cookie day. Issues of placement and planning take me to James 1 and Jeremiah often. I know when it’s all said and done, I will know it was exactly the “cookie” meant for us, but it’s difficult to see in the “here and now.”

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    • Amy says

      April 8, 2013 at 5:54 pm

      I get this. And I’m sorry!

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  3. wanderwithlizzie says

    April 10, 2013 at 10:19 pm

    People in the office know I love fortune cookies so if they eat at the Asian restaurant, many times they bring back their fortune cookie for me. So, I get a lot of fortune cookies. However, the other day I got an epic one. It said, “Are you tired?! Because you have been running through my mind all day.” Yes, my stale fortune cookie had a pickup line it. And sometimes, I think that’s just how my life is. AKA sometimes you just have to laugh.

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    • Amy says

      April 11, 2013 at 9:56 pm

      Priceless fortune :)

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