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It's funny how that word hate is thrown around almost as much as that word love is.
I have a lot to say about hate. Forgive the unusually long post, I won't make a habit of it... tune in tomorrow for regularly scheduled programming... lol... I will post on the cool gig last night!
It seems like hate has a new added meaning.
Hate now means to not agree with. So, whenever you disagree with someone, or what they do, you are a hater. Is it just me, or does it seem like our right to free speech is getting kicked out the window?
Not to be presumptuous, but when I was a kid, I disagreed with my mom and dad pretty constantly. You know how 15 year-old kids know everything. About everything. :P - and oddly enough, I never assumed my mom hated me because she and I didn't see eye to eye.
On another note... last night, there was an awful massacre in Aurora, CO. Inside a movie theatre, 20 people were killed, and 50 more were injured.
Senseless and tragic. I cannot even imagine the shock and numb grief of the families that got those house visits and calls last night. My heart goes out to those that are in such pain.
As I bounced around on Facebook today, I read a number of related posts from various sources.
Do you know what they ALL had in common?
Their responses were all the same. Shoot, maim, or torture the shooter.
Yes, he is a mess, clearly. Most likely demon possessed, insanely deceived and/or delusional.
Still...the only thing I can think of is... what would Jesus do?
He would do what we/I would consider the hardest thing. He would extend grace... forgiveness if the man repented. He would love the man. Not that the guy doesn't get consequences - that's not what I am saying... but you can't bring the dead back... but Jesus wouldn't hate... He never does... :)
Aren't you glad He doesn't? I am...
Hate is never the answer when Love asks a question...
God bless you today :) go and spread some LOVE! <3
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Do you know what I find curious? I am in the process of moving... odious work, that... packing well should be an Olympic sport... trying to pack X amount of stuff into packaging designed for half of the amount that is to be smashed and squashed into it... well, that right there is an engineer's nightmare... and OF COURSE I digress...
Sitting here, in my room, surrounded by boxes of all shapes, sizes, and purposes, I am reminded of something...
It's curious that I am also surrounded by boxes of another kind... rather than protect and transport, these are the kind that hinder, limit and deflate.
You know THOSE boxes. I am talking about the boxes that we use to put ourselves into. OR worse, others. We form ideas about things, people, and situations... What we don't understand we put into a neat little mental image... the walls of the box go up. Carefully,we cover what we started with until it is unrecognizable...WE decide what truth is and carefully wrap it in bubble wrap and layers of tape!
We hide in our boxes so that others can't hurt us. We put others in boxes by limiting them, as well... We label them with labels- aka, "clothes" that they were never intended to wear.
We also put God in a box, in our little minds, we make Him to be all the things that we THINK He is... We, made in His image - make Him, in ours...
We weren't meant to be confined to little thinking and dead end roads...
We were designed to SOAR... Gliding over the clouds of doubt and discouragement, we were created to FLY! Not limited to the small ideas of man, we need to dream BIG!.... Even moreover, we need to believe the Words of a Big God (oh!) to make the dreams a reality... to make them happen in ways that we can't even think or imagine! The unfathomable resources of the King of every King! He says that His ways are so much higher than ours... is it any wonder our vision is so small? We lack the vantage view!
So... take me out of your box.. and I will take you out of mine... and may we learn to take HIM out of His :)
God bless!
