We can’t coexist when everyone throws around the word “hate
and bigot” all the time. We can’t live
in a world where everyone is equal when we all believe equality is
different. I am just a simple Christian mom trying to
love my husband and raise my two pretty terrific kids. My kids are living such a different life from
what my husband and I did. They live in
a different kind of generation where they are connected to the world
instantly. They go to a public school
and get to be exposed to the world in sometimes a scary way… but it’s true that
Jesus walked the real world and those
are models we live by.
I get really said or maybe just disappointed when my agonist
and atheist friends, which I have, want to slander my religion because it believes
what it does. I truly grieve when people
think I “hate” or want there to be discrimination towards … Muslims, homosexuals,
transgender, blacks, whites, men, women, unborn, handicap, veterans, purple
eyed monsters. I mean serious the list
could go on forever. We’re all
different, we all believe in different things, we live life different, we all
love differently, we all struggle in different manners, and different things are our pursuit to
happiness. This is infallible.
But...
Shame on anyone who belittles others.
Shame on anyone who spreads hate rather than compassion.
Shame on anyone who thinks being different is depraved.
I have friends right now fighting for their lives with battling
cancer or other sickness. I had friends
and family members who were murdered, yes murdered. I have friends who had abortions. I have friends and family who’ve been divorced
and remarried, some even multiple times.
I have LGBT friends, family members and neighbors (Who are simply the
best neighbors in the subdivision.) I
have friends and family members who are or were addicted to drugs, alcohol, or
something even worse. I have friends who are theological, intellectual, and self-sufficient. I have friends who care nothing of religion
and those who are rooted deep in their faith. I have friends who are democrats, liberals,
republicans, independent, or simply neutral to politics… but at the end of the
day they are all just humans trying to find happiness and live their lives in harmony. They
are trying hard to coexist but still be true to the things that they value and
hold dear.
I personally believe that God is real, he made us in his
image, he is loving and compassionate, he grieves when we grieve, and he rejoices
when we rejoice. He gave us moral laws and
those moral laws differ from what society continues to push for. God’s commands are not intended for subjugation
but are rooted in love and compassion.
He doesn’t want death for us, he simply wants life.
Society doesn’t like the word sin at all. The bible talks a lot about it and yet our
world doesn’t accept it. But sin exists whether or not you belief in it. Our moral laws
now a days are so blended and twisted that parties on both sides of these laws
purse truth in such a reckless way. Swearing and slewing garbage at people, as
Donald Trump or even some of my friends do, wasn’t the way Jesus spoke to
people. He loved people not because they were sinless but because he was sinless...
Jesus said “He that is without sin amoung you, let him first
cast a stone at her.” – John 8:7
I am tired of people casting stones at each other… aren’t
you also? I am sad that people think
making political statements are more important than rising above the diversity
we all face. We will always disagree ...
because we are all so different. We can’t
coexisted if we don’t first put down the stones of hatred and self- righteousness.
