As I sit quietly and ponder all of the comments posted on my previous note, I can't help but question my own relationship with God. This is the time where I sit "uncomfortably in the middle". But could it be that if times like these never came up would I ever be challenged to be a better person? Not "righter" but better. So I know that its my job to spread God's word. And it usually helps to know what you're talking about. No, I don't read my Bible on a consistent basis. Does that make me less of a Christian, well I would hope not. My absolute best friend and I were talking a couple of weeks ago bout trying to find a church to take the kids to. One like we went to when we were kids. Loving, accepting and just all around pretty awesome. But she brought up a valid point. Taking the kids to church is great and all but shouldn't we be better examples for our kids first? Absolutely.
I have always been a curious person I have always wondered why Muslims believe what they believe, Mormons, etc...Not to try to convert or anything but to just see what was the foundation for the beliefs. Again, I am not a history, Theology, or psychology major. I am a person with fairly strong convictions. I say fairly because unless I truly understand something I'm not sure whether to stand behind it or not. Take abortion, that's something medical and moral that I know a little bit about considering my profession and my beliefs. Ok clinically here are the facts. When a child is conceived the heart beings to beat around the 10th day of gestation. So before then the abortionists could actually be right, its a blob of tissue. On that, let me ask you this. Has anyone reading this ever met a woman that knew she was 10 days pregnant? Unless she had some uncanny super power, most likely not. So scientifically and morally I believe that abortion is wrong and is murder. Doctors are killing living breathing growing human beings at alarming rates.I promise this isn't my soap box against abortion I promise. Although even if it was...so what. Lol
Which leads me to share my absolute favorite verse in the Bible Psalms 139:13-16. When you read that how can a person NOT get excited. He made us exactly how He wants us. Even before we were born.
Here's where it can get twisted. Where did most Christians get their teachings from? And don't say God and the Bible. I'm talking on a smaller scale. We got them from our parents and/or pastor. Where did they get theirs...you see where I'm going here? Sometimes I see religion as a generational game of telephone. It's can get distorted being passed along. Heck look at the loons at Westboro Church. Something got screwed up along the way down. My point is this. Yes, I believe you should read and believe your Bible. But why not also listen to what God is directly personally telling you. Believe me, if I hadn't listened to what He told me, I wouldn't have posted my previous note. I believe God speaks to us in many different ways. The way He speaks to me is by beating me over the head until I listen. I'm not good with subtlety. I can pretty much sit here and say the same thing I said before. Talking about love, acceptance and all that jazz, but wouldn't it just be easier to copy and paste the same thing? Our lives are full of trials. We are all going to be persecuted for who we are in one way or another. It just happens. So I chose to celebrate our differences in my own way. The one thing I want any reader of this to take away from this is this her point, God isn't finished with any of us. Until we draw our last breath and enter the kingdom of heaven, he continues on a daily basis to mold us and shape us, like His figurative clay, into something beautiful. Maybe that's why it hurts so much at times.
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