Rather than respond, I reacted. I
wrote what I thought and felt. It is interesting to me that this email came in
just after I finished reading a Dan Pearce (Single Dad Laughing) blog. (I encourage you to read it too).
It has become a You Tube video that a diverse group of people are posting or liking
on Facebook. I was obviously moved by Dan’s thoughts. And I like to think I was
honest in sharing my convictions too.
As you read my response, I encourage you to be the love of Christ this Christmas season to
everyone – not just those live like you, who agree with you, who look like you,
who believe like you, who speak the same language as you, who vote like you, or
who cheer for the same team as you. Give the gift of grace to everyone you can.
Love will abound and it will truly be Christmas!
And so I wrote: this is an urban
legend that has been circulating for years! In the season when we celebrate the
greatest love gift in the world - please choose to give the gift of love to all
others, building them up and showing them what "the greatest of these is
love" actually is (or should be) like today!
What if all the Obama haters, or
haters of anyone different from you, did what scripture calls for and prayed
for their leaders? No matter who or what you are against - if you spend as much
time praying for someone as you do criticizing or tearing them down or
spreading falsehoods against them - guess who just might change? Yes, they
might - but so might you!
The Kingdom was not built on hatred
but on love! How do we know we are Christians - by our love! Show it to someone
today! I don't apologize for being on my "soap box" - I am so tired
of divisive, negative attitudes when that is not what we are commanded or
expected to be or do!
If I want things to be different - I
have to be the difference! What about you?
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