hey guys.

church all by myself?
heck yes.

i read the story of samson. the one guy who killed a lion with his bare hands. and then later took honey out of the same lion's carcass and ate it.
yeah, him.
did you know he caught 300 foxes and lit all their tails on fire and released them through vineyards and cornfields and orchards?
so imagine.
300 little foxes. with flaming tails. running through your backyard and destroying it.

no one in the movie business even came up with anything that genius yet.

i got mad at chapter 16. when he falls in love.
i thought about it. did he really love delilah? or was it all a fluke? i mean, honestly. pretty much the strongest man in the entire world goes around killing lions and catching foxes and slaying 1000 men, and then suddenly he falls in love.
and that ruins everything.

i painted my toenails while i thought.
it's obvious delilah had no feelings for him. no affection. no love.
and.
he was head over heels for her.
but why?
did he like her neck or something? was he smitten by her beauty? did she make him laugh?

it never tells you why.
all it says,
is that he falls in love with her.
and.
she betrays him.

after that, i sat on the kitchen floor and decided that i really didn't need to know anything more. it would just ruin all of it. because it's not about the man's romantic intentions. it's not about some lady's cunning dramatic abilities.
it's about God.
and his brilliant plan.
in the end, samson didn't ask God for revenge on his parents. or his wife. or the philistines. or even delilah.

he just wanted his eyes back.