God.

Is it a name? Or a person?

I was thinking about it the other day, and in today's society it's all the rave to not use the word "Love" every other word for how we feel about someone, or something. If God, which is the name of an almighty, holy, amazing, loving God, is thrown around so much more liberally, will it not then lose it's significance? I don't know about you, but I would adore to have a tingly sensations from my head to my toes, just to THINK about God's name. So I'm adding to the list. 4) Make God's name a special one.

I Look Around Me

When I look around me, I see a lot of things. But mostly I've begun to see that everyone is different, no matter how hard we try, no matter what we do, we will never, two of us, be the same. We are all given, first, the gift of Eternal life with God if WE so choose, and second, the gift of the part where WE CHOOSE. We make decisions everyday. Whether to make our bed, what to wear, what to eat, what to say, who to say it to. So many decisions that we make, but how many are the right one. I've begun to ask myself that. Why is it that I can look at others and say "You made the wrong choice." when I couldn't even tell you if I knew if half of the decisions I've made have been good or bad, and the other half I know must have been bad. I could play it off, say it's my nature, but what would that get me? Still not the knowledge to make the right decision later. So maybe I should stop looking around me, and look to God. He can show me what wrong decisions I've made, and how to not make them again. It could be the smallest "wrong decision" the equivalent of a SMALL white lie, but it's still wrong. It says in  Revelations 21:8 that "ALL liars" will have their share of Hell Fire. So maybe that wrong decision was a lie, do I then not deserve Hell Fire, right beside the "Cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral,  sorcerers, and idolators."? 

So. 3) Look for the wrong decisions on MY part. 

"...That you love one another." John 15:17

 Let's love one another, wrong decisions and all.  

Sisters.

I've been hanging out with my sisters all day. Eating food, watching movies, laughing, smiling, talking. I think about how much I love my sisters, and then I think about how we are ALL God's children. Does that not then make ALL of those women my sisters. Why then do I judge? Why do I point my finger at them and say "You..."

I claim to love my sisters, but if I am not loving ON my sisters, am I not then a hypocrite? If I judge my sisters, am I not then lying? 

Why then do I do it?

I, as a child of God's, am called to "LOVE my neighbor" How much more should I then LOVE my family? 

I think about the girls, the people, that I judge. And then I think of girls who are in situations worse than mine, and I think "How sad, but it's not their fault, they are in a bad situation." Not only do  judge, I'm picky about it. 

So, I'm adding to my list. First I need to not think about me. Then I need to have my thoughts be LOVING towards others, not judging. 

"Judge not, that you be not judged." Matthew 7:1

I've Just Been Thinking....

Sometimes I sit here, and I think. I think about what happened today, I think about what I'll do tomorrow, I think about when I was little, I think about friends, family, and people who wouldn't count as either of those, but mostly I think about me. How horrible does that sound? I. Think. About. ME. And honestly, I don't want to think about me anymore, God says that He thinks about me, so I should focus my thoughts somewhere else, on SOMEONE else. How THEY are feeling today. How THEY would like to be treated. How THEY are thinking. God has given us these amazing minds, and no matter what we do, they are prone to wander, but don't let them wander to yourself. Let them wander to others. What can you do to help them? Is it snowy outside? shovel. Is it warm and Springtime? Go pull their weeds. There are so many things you can do. All you have to do is think, not about yourself, but rather what has God given you the ability to do for others.


In Matthew 6:25-29 it says "Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will ear or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? So why then do you worry about clothing? consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, and yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." 

So, let's you and me, go on an excursion. An excursion that will take our thoughts elsewhere, down a path that leads to others, and not a picture of ourselves.