Who is like God?

I've been plagued with doubts for months now ranging from the existential to the earthly. I'm pretty well out of the doubting stage for now, but I'm sure I'll eek back into it sometime shortly; perhaps while writing this.

Self-discovery in Others
I spent six hours with a good friend last night. He's one of the people I intentionally call 'friend.' We always have meaningful, revealing conversations when we get together, but not in any mentally taxing or spiritually exhausting way; just good conversation. This meeting was a little different, though- we talked a lot about me.

He told me I shared a few qualities with his brother. It was welcome commentary as I've been learning a lot about myself recently (and his brother is a really cool dude). We determined that I'm the kind of person who looks at things from every possible angle, or tries to incorporate as much as I can into every consideration. Due this tendency I usually bring unique questions, insights, etc., to discussions, problems, planning. It really helps when mentoring others, counseling, etc. Sometimes people need extra perspective before taking a leap. Great for helping others, not so great for me.

The downside, we realized (I don't remember who realized it first), is that in adopting every perspective I neglect to commit to an action. This has been a huge problem in my life. I get so caught up in thinking about the "how" and "why" and trying to process everything that I just don't do anything. Everything has to be a process, or processed, packaged, and neat. At the same time, I'm definitely not a perfectionist. The search for Truth has blinded my sense of living Truth.

Who is like the LORD?
We talked about our names, what they mean. He joked about how precisely his name applies to him. I lamented that mine really doesn't have anything concrete like "courage" or "warrior" or something. "No," he said, " your name really does say a lot about you. You're always asking questions, you want things to be right." I don't really remember everything he said, but it sounded spot on.

We talked about it a little more, and it really does apply. I hate social injustice. Moreover, I hate the roots of social injustice. My blood boils over people who subjugate others in any situation from hate-spewers to self-preserving bourgeois capitalists to the simple prick bent on winning. I hate it. For some reason this reminded me of Michael the Archangel. I envisioned fronting on Lucifer after kicking him out saying "Yeah! What!? What!? Who's like the LORD now, be-otch!" All told, it probably didn't go quite like that.

edit: no, I'm not saying that I want to likewise usurp the people that anger me. It's like President Nixon said: "Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."

My Old Home Kentucky
I'd lamented privately to another friend some months ago that I'll be the last one in Wichita pretty soon what with people going off, getting married, etc. He replied that I really just need to get out and about, explore. This is made very difficult by the previous section, but it really made me stop and think, and I'm working on incorporating this into myself. Along that line, a good friend invited me to move with him to Kentucky if he pursues his Masters . . .