I'll be praying for you!

Has something happened that rocked your world? Something completely unexpected? Did you lose your job? Did you lose someone you love? Are you fighting with your significant other? In the wake if this horrible event, how many phone calls did you recieve with someone on the other end telling you how sorry they are and that they will be praying for you? Did those words comfort you? Did those words really mean anything to you? 

Or MAYBE you looked around at the people who came to support you in your time of need and thought "do you only pray when something bad happens?" Maybe it's just me, but sometimes I wonder....

I look around at the people closest to me and I just know they are praying, I don't expect them to tell me or post those words on my Facebook. 

It makes me wonder if those who behind the screen or on the other end if the phone really "pray" at all, or if just when things are bad? It also makes me wonder if they pray for me for my sake or there's? 

Now don't get me wrong, I understand sometimes your friends are in different states, countries and time zones, and the only way they CAN express their concern for you is through the phone or social media. But even then don't those check back in with you? Don't you hear from them in a short period of time and they want to know how YOU are? I am not referring to those friends. 

In this edition, I am mostly refering to those that "play a role" in life, no matter what that role is, they can turn concern on and off as the situation calls for. They don't really care about how you are on a day to day basis, and in turn you probably feel the same because you are never really sure of the motivation behind the concern. 

Let's get back to real friendship. People we can call at any given time and vent,complain, or cry at any given time, and not have to wonder if they really care or if they will "be praying for you". Let's not define our worth by the amount of likes we get. 

To have real life fellowship we need real life people who don't always say the right things or do the right things, but you know deep in your heart that those band of misfits you surround yourself with care more about you, then the person who spits out the cookie cutter terms as the situation deems. 

Just my humble opinion, love it or leave it ;) 

Gay can't be normal? can it???

             Lately the big topic of discussion has been the "gay" issue. for me it's not an issue, I'm not gay, and I won't try to be cliche and say I have gay friends, cause I don't. I had a Gay professor once, I liked her she was good at teaching. I do know this one gay man who sometimes helps my Dad, I like him, we have had some great conversation about shoes!

            But recently, the discussion came up in my own house hold because of a song:  Same Love, has anyone else heard this song? Oh the controversy!!!! Personally I love the song. I think it's absolutely beautiful. But I digress... my 13 year old loves this song. And my 20 year old wondered if it was okay that I let her listen to it. I thought for a second and said, I would rather allow her to listen to things that the "normals" label as wrong then allow her to be a homophobic. The 20 year old said, " your a good mom". even though that made me all warm and fuzzy inside I still haven't been able to get the conversation out of my head.

        See my children know what I believe. They know that I believe that Jesus came and died for my sins, because I am a sinner, every single day of my life I am a sinner, I am the living, breathing, walking, talking (like a sailor), reason a savior is needed! That being said I wonder, who am I to judge? isn't there enough hate in the world without me adding to the masses? Not that I am overly important, but apparently I do have some influence on the little humans I have brought into this world, and I don't anyone to judge my humans, on how they look, speak, act, or how they chose to live, so why would I do it to someone else just because I'm not gay?

Here is the bottom line of my opinion on this "issue", ( and why is it an "issue"?) I am only responsible for myself, I am not Christ, I am not any less of a sinner because I happen to like men, and I am FAR from perfect. If two men want to get married, what the hell do I care????  How is it hurting me or my family if my neighbors happen to be two women?

Oh I know, I'm going to get hated on because I am now "tolerant" and "gay lovin" , and how on earth can I profess Christ as my savior when it clearly states in the good book and gay is WRONG???? Well, here's what my pierced, tattooed ass has to say about that...you all better be perfect. because in my life experience I have learned that those who protest the most about something usually have something to hide.

There is enough hate in this world, and this life is too short to spend it hating someone for something I have no control over, and when my time comes and I have to meet my maker, the last thing I want to talk about is why I spent so much of my life hating his people instead of loving his people.

That's my humble opinion, love it or leave it, but there is always more then one way to look at things.