Tolerance? Yeah right!

I am a terible sufferer of AADD, Adult Attention Deficit Disorder. I sign on my blog to write but then I notice I don't have a cutesy picture in my default box, I spend a minute trying to access a photo album and realizing I don't know where this photo album is on the desktop computer, then I see where I can update my profile to a public profile but it's for google accounts and I just wanted to do it for my blog, so then I decide that I got on here to write and that is what I should be doing.

Tolerance, yeah right! Tolerance has lost its meaning amongst most people claiming to be open-minded. If tolerance was a rowboat it would be listing stongly to one side.

TOLERATE ME! is loudly yelled from those who inadvertently stand against me. Who am I? A caucasian, heterosexual, Bible believing follower of Jesus Christ. That's right, I said it, hetero, Christ follower.

I can tolerate those who are different from me, those who believe differently and those who live a lifestyle which I am opposed to.

My faith is personal to me. Yes I believe the only way to heaven is through Jesus Christ's death on the cross and His forgiveness of my sins, I believe that the Bible is the infallible and inspired Word of God. I also believe that God has called me to love those different than I. Jesus prayed for those who nailed Him to the cross, He did not spew sermons at them. He sat with the woman at the well and spoke of eternal life for her through belief in Him. I enjoy my time spent at my church and walk away feeling as if I have sat at the feet of Jesus for that time.

I do not float on clouds because of my personal faith, I have human emotions. I don't agree that a mosque should be built near Ground Zero. Let's go to their countries and build churches in their cities. Muslims burn Christians in their countries, where is the outcry of tolerance then?

I am personally tired of being told that I have to tolerate those who are or believe differently than me. My faith already commands me to love those different than me. When the tables are turned and those different than me are approached with tolerating me, or the way I believe, names, stereotypes, hostile ideas, and a personal cut off are the only reactions I receive.

I could go on but I have already taxed my attention span. I am not this outspoken in person, perhaps that is why I have vented in the written word.

Cultural Awakening

I just read an excellent novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, and have experienced a cultural awakening. Life for us Americans is so much easier than what could be almost the rest of the world. People in other countries don't think like us, they don't live like us and don't see life as we do.

We are so concerned about the things that don't matter in this life, designer clothes, bigger paychecks, cooler cars, fancier houses, elite neighborhoods and the most up to date electronic devices. Outside our country life means being with our loved ones, staying alive another day, eating to survive not for pleasure, and a house with two rooms makes a home.

We sit and watch our television shows, play our computer games or video games, play the lottery and throw away our faith for the next best thing. What do we leave behind? Property to be taxed, debt, heartaches from unresolved relationships, and regrets.

Yeah, there are some messed up things out there in this world but we live in a broken world (Pastor Jonathon)it's going to be there. No one has made it to heaven because they were an American and I can guarantee you that no one will. I love my country, I served my country and I would serve it again, but I want to understand the rest of the world by seeing it through their eyes.

Sometimes Life = Pain

This week begins with a feeling of utter hopelessness. FYI, I am not, have not been, will not be perfect. My life has seen it's fair share of sins done in the name of selfishness, repentance has been my saving grace. However, not all will accept the fact that I have turned from these sins and changed my path to one that does not repeat them. To some I remain a flawed and a stupid individual who has done nothing but ruined their lives. Thank God for His forgiveness and unconditional love, without Him I would have no hope. This is not to say that I don't have failures in the present, but don't we all because of our humanness?

I am enclosing my church's website because it is there that I am reminded over and over again that God loves me with an unconditional, eternal love and He will not abandon me. http://www.gracecma.org/

'Profoundness'

Is it considered plagiarism if I take, word for word, my own writings from my other blog and put it on here? I think not!


‘Profoundness’ is in the mind of the reader. Do not leave it up to me to decide what is profound to you as I have not left it up to you to determine what is profound to me. So many things are happening around us today that I seem to think that the world is deteriorating around us or I have grown more aware of the cruelty of life as one ages. Perverseness and ugliness has existed since the beginning of time and each generation comments on the depravity of humankind, so why should it be different now? As December 2009 joins the ranks of history January 2010 opens up before us to make a new beginning to a new year and the changes in our lives needed to make it a better year.