{"id":746,"date":"2008-10-21T06:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T06:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/?p=746"},"modified":"2008-10-21T06:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T06:16:00","slug":"746","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/2008\/10\/21\/746\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Legal.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I watch this show very occasionally.&nbsp; Hardly at all.&nbsp; I think it is a good show, but I never seem to catch any show- and if I do it is never on a weekly basis.&nbsp; I forget, have plans, forget or just don&#8217;t care enough.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I liked last week&#8217;s show.&nbsp; The jist of it was containing a love story.&nbsp; The guy (one of the lawyers)&nbsp;was chasing after the girl- the following were possible outcomes.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>He win&#8217;s the case-&nbsp;he loses the girl (because her husband would go free from murder)<br \/>He loses the case- he loses the girl (because she would wait for her husband)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t look good for him.&nbsp; In fact he doesn&#8217;t end up with her like he would at the end of some perfect love story.&nbsp; I just thought that maybe this love that he had could be seen sometimes as how Christ loves us.&nbsp; I know in many occasions this can be a real-world scenario.&nbsp; I have experienced things similar.. very similar.&nbsp; Yet I also know friends who have done the same to the person chasing them.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Despite the certainty of hurt, heartache, pain he chose to love.&nbsp; Not because he had to or was being forced to, rather because&nbsp;he simply Loved her.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>How on earth could Christ&#8217;s love be like this?&nbsp; He loves us and pursues us regardless&nbsp;of our outcome at the end.&nbsp; At the end of the show he was heartbroken and William Shatner&#8217;s character had to cheer him up &#8211; but it was a solemn ending.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t really even thought of&nbsp;the similarities of the guilty\/innocent judge\/jury&nbsp;until now, but he is the Judge and jury on our case in life, he holds everything.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t some preachy message.&nbsp; Just something I thought of during and after the show while I was texting back and forth with Rebecca.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Endquote -&#8220;Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.&#8221;&nbsp; Marriage.&nbsp; What a word, especially in this day and age.&nbsp; It is how I think a relationship with God should be, not so static, but dynamic to every degree.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>this was a random blog.&nbsp; sorry? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>just Pray<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Legal. I watch this show very occasionally.&nbsp; Hardly at all.&nbsp; I think it is a good show, but I never seem to catch any show- and if I do it is never on a weekly basis.&nbsp; I forget, have plans, forget or just don&#8217;t care enough. 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