Certainty is helpful when you're facing a tough time. My daughter is 'pledging' a high school sorority. This week she's a 'rat'. She's joining the cerebral sorority, so there's nothing too terrible (in terms of messiness or dirtiness) that she has to do, but it is testing her resolve.
Here's some of what she has to do:
- Give the current members candy.
- Dress however they tell her too - which usually involves looking silly.
- Provide 'entertainments', by which they mean songs, dances, skits, etc.
- Refrain from talking to boys at school.
- No make-up.
- Projects - like writing something on each sheet of a roll of toilet paper and each marshmallow in a bag of marshmallows.
The current members of the sorority give (and take away) points for 'rats' that either please or displease them. Apparently, there's also yelling.
I'm going to admit that I don't get it. I wouldn't subject myself to even this mild (by comparison) initiation. Girls who like you ask you to join their club and then mistreat you for a week... Somehow, my daughter is convinced that it's worth it.
But what I do get is that there are many things that we decide to do - we're certain of - that require us to endure hardship. If you're a Christian, discipleship will sometimes lead down roads that you probably wouldn't choose for yourself. Though I'm not sure that my daughter's sorority experience will be worth the trouble in the end, I'm certain than whatever discipleship requires will be.
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