Character of the Month: George and Harold

It is still the month of January, mind you.
Here are some characters to remember you by, oh month of January;

Obviously, Captain Underpants was quality art in it's fullest.  And I knew at once that George, Harold and I were kindred spirits.  It was like watching me and my little-bro-man's childhood.  Making comics, crude humor, taking everything too seriously, and general brilliance.
Top notch  relatable characters.

Faithful One Hundred Percent

I'm leave on a missions trip to Loja Ecuador in 40 days for a week and a half.  I don't know any Spanish.  I've never been on the missions trip.  My geography sucks.  (I'm not totally sure why that's important but it feels important so I added it)  I'm the youngest going by a lot.  I go sick when I have to even share a testimony.  I'm directionally challenged....Rephrase.  I'm directionally broken. 

Some months ago I heard work mates talk about me on different occasions, about my stupidity. "Yeah, who does that?"  
It hurt.

*Writing about my trip to Ecuador.*  Your writing is baloney.  You're not actually passionate about this.
*Making wrist bands to sell as a fund raiser.*  What a dumb logo.  These are stupid.  You're stupid.
Everything I did seemed to start with That's dumb and end with You're dumb.
I'm too stupid.  Too stupid to do anything.  I mess up everything.  I want to follow God's will but God can't use a stupid person.

I'm in Seussical the Musical.  I'm not being random, really, I actually have a point to this.  If you don't know the story, it's about Horton the Elephant (the local no-brain) who takes the responsibility upon himself to be the protector of an abandoned birds egg, and an invisible world.  Throughout the story he's called a fool, he's teased, he's tormented, and even battled because of his faithfulness.

I was reading 1 Corinthians this morning.  Paul describes the Corinthians in that church as 'not wise by human standards or noble or educated.'
And then he says;

But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.  He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things-and the things that are not-to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him.

My first thought: That sounds like Horton.
Then it got personal.  I remembered asking God how he could use me.  He replied, "Just like this."

I meant what I said, and I said what I meant.  An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!  You can throw me in jail, lock me up in a zoo, but I wont desert my egg and I will not abandon Who!

-Horton (Seussical the Musical, from the books my Dr. Seuss) 

(Verse from 1 Corinthians 1:27-29)