We'll pray for unity, we'll guard each one's diginity, and we'll spread the Good News because God IS in our land...by our love, by our love

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Learning to love many different kinds of people is crazy and I like it.

Do you ever get to the point where you feel like you have been hanging on the edge of a cliff for a very long time and frankly, you just want to let go and not feel so tense anymore? I do.

But somehow, God has made this crazy, radical, change in my life regarding just this.

Somehow, beyond all the busyness, the too much stuff to do life, I know there is something better. And I also know the purpose of being here. It’s really not as magical as we always thought it would be, you know, the whole “What’s the secret of life” idea. Why are we here? It doesn’t really make sense does it? No matter what way I think it through, I just can’t figure out why God decided to create us in the first place. But I’ve got to think beyond that. I’m not God and I don’t know those things. I think He reveals things like that to people. I mean, think about how much He revealed about this Earth’s future in Revelations! He may just not reveal it in the way you would think.

Anyway, so God has revealed purpose in this life to me: What is more important than the love you share with the lost, the broken, and also the saved? Just as God loved us, so I shall love them. No matter who the person is or how much we can’t stand them. We must love them and the epitome of love is not just saying, “Ok, so I really love this person, BUT…”

It’s funny though. I just finally came to this understanding this past year. My heart was finally ready I guess. And now I’m here with these thoughts:

1. Seriously, it’s hard to love when you just stayed up all night working on a paper and you want to keel over and your face will just not manipulate itself into a smile. It’s hard.

2. What’s up with Christians and loving other Christians? I had a talk with one of my homegirls about this the other day. Aren’t they supposed to know we are Christians by our love (by our love) and as I become more and more familiar with the bible I see how Christians acted towards each other. Shouldn’t the shear fact that we are Christian bring us together? Why are we so divided? What is that saying…A house divided against itself cannot stand. Hmmmm…I have this picture in my head of myself walking down a road (which has manifested itself as one of the streets by my sister’s house) and seeing a woman with a cross necklace on and embracing her. I don’t know her, maybe I never will. But we are family because of Christ. And we are fighting the same fight.

And I can’t help think that someday God is going to place in my heart the ability to do these things. I know He will because He always follows through. So even in this time of my life when I actually did stay up all night to write a paper that ended up being too long and hopefully I don’t get points taken off for that, and when I had some really crappy tests last week and this week, I can still say that. God is good all the time, even when we feel pretty sucky.

So the cliff analogy: It’s not that God has shown me that it’s ok to let go, it’s that He has put in me the knowledge of new branches to hold on to and the footholds to climb over the edge, and purpose, because without that, you might as well just let go. Thank you Lord for that.