Love it...... LOVE IT.

This week's Pushing Daisies (without providing a spoiler) proved once again to be the show of my dreams when the detective character "Emerson Cod" played by Chi McBride counsels an unhappy client resistant to difference and change with two simple words. "Love IT."

Det. Emerson Cod's command to this fussy, hard-nosed client causes her to instantly cease in her critiques and simply embrace her estranged daughter. There were several reasons this scene had me (and the rest of the room) in stitches.

First, was the fact that a very large and serious, tough but uber cool black man was using the phrase "Love it" (one of my personal favs.)
Second was that coming from him, nothing more needed to be said for the woman (and the audience) to "get it" and comply.
Thirdly, was the fact that you could take this 30 second snippet and insert it's application into ANY life situation and be able to laugh and cry at the delivery and relevance to any and every circumstance.

What if, whenever we come stomping in to God's "office" so serious about the strains and inconveniences dealt to us and cry to him to "fix them" and he does but in a different way than we expected and our still fussy and determined selves were unsatisfied with the final results of the outcome, and so he leans over, looks at us straight in the eye and commands. "LOVE IT." And so we have to?

Actually, He does say this through out scripture come to think of it, and yet it's so easy to take it as a "suggestion" rather than a command so we'll have "time" to accept it, embrace it, grow in it and then okay, fine, eventually "Love it".

But I'm starting to think that in the middle of our own fits and tantrums, it might do us some good if we received this message with a little "Chi" style round kick delivery.

Because maybe we are all a lot tougher than we think.

And I bet God knew it all along.