My Name is Jali

     I used to really feel bad for Olivia Pope. This woman was in an impossible position, in love with somebody she couldn't have, and doing her best to stay strong and move on. Right? So wrong! After watching the 2nd season finale of Scandal, the boiling hatred I felt for President Fitzgerald Grant spilled over and spread to Olivia, or "Livvie", as he affectionately calls her.       Most people who watch the show with me know that I hate the President for his fickle, impulsive, selfish, insensitive behavior that seems to hurt everyone and everything he touches. His personal life sucks, and in my opinion, so does his running of the country, since that job seems to be done by everybody else (enter, "Defiance"). I felt bad for Olivia because she was obviously so in love with him, and I felt that he took advantage of her feelings for him and then broke her heart anytime something happened that he didn't like. In my opinion, he didn't treat...

  Job 6:11 (NIV) - What strength do I have, that I should hope? What prospects, that I should be patient? Job is struggling big time. By the 6th chapter, he's lost all his kids, his livelihood, and his good reputation. On top of that he's gotten a very painful skin disease, and on top of that, his friends are convinced that he has done something terrible to earn the wrath of God. None of them realized at this point that God was simply testing Job's faithfulness and growing his faith in the process. So, we can safely say that Job's world is falling apart. He's sorrowful, he's broken, and he wishes he were dead. And now he has to hear about how sinful he is from people who are supposed to be his closest friends. Sometimes the people we need to encourage and support us are the ones kicking us when we're already down. They may say, "If you hadn't done this, then that wouldn't have...", or they may say "well you're just going to...