Tonight I have to say that I am pretty wordless. This doesn't happen very often. Usually I can talk about pretty much anything off the top of my head. So until I can formulate thoughts I shall just ramble about my day. I slept in which was wonderful then joined a good friend studying at Barnes and Noble, which was a lot of fun and I actually got a lot of reading done. We went out to dinner and then a group of us girls went to the dollar theater to see the last Twilight movie... not a big of fan of the movies, but I do find them funny. I think they are poor representation of what love and sacrifice truly is.
Well now... I think I just found my words... Today part of my Bible reading was Matthew 22:34-46. Jesus is asked what the greatest commandment in the law is, Jesus said there were two, the first was loving God with everything that you have and the second was loving your neighbor as yourself. I think what I am going to focus on is the second one, loving your neighbor as yourself. I have one question to ask, not just too you but also myself and that is how much do you love yourself? Funny question yes but do you consider yourself a person worth loving? Do you consider yourself a good person? Do you consider yourself someone who needs forgiveness and love from other people? If you say no, why not? I have written before about God's deep love for us, once we recognize that, our own worth then the next step is to recognize the worth of others.
Every person has been created in the image of God, no matter where they are from, the color of their skin, their religious beliefs, their sexual orientation or their yearly income. Love is choice, we choose to love our friends and family, our neighbors, our dog, but why do we not love other people the same way? I am not saying too overlook what is clearly wrong but why is it that just because something irritates us about someone, or makes us uncomfortable, we do not think they are deserving of Gods love, we are all deserving of Gods love. This is hard for me, when someone makes me angry or frustrates me, I do not want to show Gods love, I don't even want to be nice to them. There have been many situations where I remember saying how could God love that person they did this or they did that, but God does not have a scale where certain bad things weigh more then certain others, they all weigh the same.
Gotta love when you get metaphorically hit over the head with something, I know there are people in my life that I avoid because of some little thing about them, a personality quirk. But God loves them just as much as he loves me. One of the first things I think that I will have to start doing to humble myself, is to start praying for the people that irritate me. I know that sounds weird but it is hard to be angry at someone you are praying for and who knows maybe if I pray for them either my attitude will change or maybe they will change, God does perform miracles. Being without Facebook makes me analyze myself a lot more then I usually would. As I have said before this can be a good and very frustrating thing.
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