I’ve been in the mood to write lately..perhaps partly because my mind has been restless..I can’t sleep. My mind is too full of thoughts and those thoughts usually yield themselves to a blog entry. So on to the point of this blog.

Perhaps it is because I’ve been thinking about college or perhaps it’s because my brother transfered schools..but God has been challenging my a lot on my point of view. Someone once told me, “What you think is reality becomes your reality”. And while I didn’t agree with them at the time, I think I do now. If I think that I am not wanted among a certain group of people, that becomes my reality and I avoid any and all contact with them. And I could come up with countless more examples like that. But Christ had a “Big-picture” view of life. While so often, my view is a “here and now” view-looking at life in regards to me. The more I broaden the scope of my view and my life, the more I realize how silly things are. I realized that so often I view life as being about me. What are they going that hurts me? Why am I not invited? But instead of making a difference, I complain. But see, life isn’t about me. Life is about other people-it’s about loving people. If you wanted to boil down life to one thing it would always be people. So why do we ration our love and acceptance? hy are certain people ok and certain people just not cool? Why does what someone does dictate how someone is liked? Why do we think that we are number one? Christ hung out with the lowest of the low. He ate with the sinners. He loved them-He loved the women caught in adultery. He loved the sick man. He loved the beggar. He loved the soldiers who beat Him. He loved you. He loved me. So what excuse do we have? Where in Christ’s life do we find him worrying about Himself? Read the gospels-you won’t find it cuz it’s not there. Christ didn’t care about Christ-He cared about the people He came to save. That’s our example-what are we going to do about it?

Just a thought..

Amanda