sloppy wet kisses

play this song as you're reading!

i think it's probably pretty safe to assume that when most people imagine a perfect kiss it isn't sloppy and wet.  it doesn't leave them wiping the residual slobber and germs from their mouths.  it's probably a little more neat; more respectful and thoughtful.  the perfect kiss leaves you loving the kisser even more than before.


well what about a kiss from a baby?  those kisses certainly aren't neat and clean.  they are uncontrolled, sloppy, and usually pretty wet.  the baby who has just learned to kiss isn't concerned with form or technique, but that kiss, the only way they know to express love, is still so beautiful and perfect.


our lives are nowhere close to neat and tidy.  i know that my live is a testament to that.  we stumble and fall over our own shortcomings and we let ourselves be led down the wrong path.  but you wanna know what's great about that?  God loves us anyway.  he chooses to meet us where we are in our lives.  his heavenly kingdom meets our world with such reckeless abandon.  he so greatly desires to be intimately involved in the lives of his children.  how awesome is that?!


so why do we care so much about keeping up these appearances?!  so often i see others, and most often myself, faking my faith, and not only so others will think i'm great, but so God will think i'm great too.  that's about the stupidest thing i could do.  who the corn do i think i am?!  he knows every inch of my being.  he sees my greatest faults.  he knows the darkest parts of my heart.  how could i fake who i am to him?

 
this blog is a culmination of thoughts that i've been meditating on for a while that came together perfectly when i heard this song in church this morning.  i've know and loved this song for quite some time, but i felt a definite pull of the spirit today that prompted all this.  i also know that the original lyrics for this song in the bridge do not say "when heaven meets earth like an unforseen kiss" they actually say "sloppy wet kiss".  i'm not so much interested in the reasons behind why the lyrics were changed, although if you are you can read this blog post by the songwriter.  i'm more interested in how beautiful and pure that thought is.  how great is it that despite how aweful and sinful our world is, heaven and earth can still meet in a wonderful, albeit sloppy, way that brings us redemption.  i'd take a million heartfelt, pure, genuine sloppy wet kisses over one "perfect" kiss any day!  bring em on!