nothing is as it seems

Why does everything have to be so uniformed... so cut a dry... the world is becoming clones... drones...

What is a woman? beautiful, thin... thats what you see on TV and billboards... all over the place

A woman is so much more... determined, comforting, protective, and artist, idealist, tender, understanding, comapssionate...There is NOT one look, but many different combonations to what a woman is and what she lives for, what her passions are. They come in all shapes and sizes, all walks of life, all ages.

What is a friend? someone to hang with on the wkends

A friend is so much more... someone who calls just to hear your voice because they miss you, someone who does what they can to help make your dreams come true, someone who can make you laugh so hard you fall off your chair, some one who shares their heart with you and longs to know yours... No 2 friendships look the same. There is not a formula to follow to get and maintain friends. They can pop up in the most random of places or develope over years.

What is a Christian? someone who goes to church on sunday, reads their bible infront of other people, prays long words prayers...NO!

A Christian is someone who loves GOD, Jesus and longs to have a friendship with Him. To know Him. Someone who loves unconditionally the poor, the wretched, the liars, as well as those in the church that may look down on them. "They will know we are chirstians by our love"
You can know all the logisica, all the steps, but if you leave out the relationship one needs to have with Christ, you miss the whole point. All the bible reading and church going will do nothing for you.
"putting a person in a church makes them no more a Christian than putting a duck in a garage makes it a car."


I was trying to explain that nothing is so uniformed, so structured and identical. The world expects us to be clones. The uniqueness we have is looked down upon and can even ostracize us from certain people. I was and still am having trouble explaining/expressing my thoughts so i asked a good friend (who I swear is my brain twin, luv you Jen) to help me with this.
This is what Jen had to say....

"You're talking about the carbon copy nature of the world. It wants everyone to look and behave the sameway, to seek the exact same thing, to BE the exactsame thing. It is easier for Satan to get us then. Itis like when we are sheep. Most sheep look the same,but when they are sheep saved for a purpose, it islike they are tye-dyed. Or colored different, or theirwool is different. It is how the shepard can tellbetween his and other's sheep. Like a cattle brand. Weare branded, but not identically.One body, many parts. Different functions lookdifferent. If you look at older paintings, the nakedpeople in them are much fuller figured, bordering onwhat this society calls fat. IT IS HEALTHY!!!! Satandrives us to the extremes, either extreme skinninessor extreme obesity. And those of us who fall in themiddle, we are made to feel less because we don't fitthe ideal.

And Christians, well, talk to a Christian in Rwanda,in India, in France, in Brazil. It all looksdifferent. Talk to a believing Catholic, aPentecostal, a Baptist, a non-Denominationalfellowshipper. Different ways of doing the same thing.Words might be fancy, might be plain. Songs might behip-hop happening, or they might be acapella hymns.The building might have a steeple, a storefront,stainglass or a window in a house. Does that changethe nature of what goes on inside?

Labels enslave us. We try to quantify ourselves forour own understanding, and the understanding ofothers.

Read the lyrics of this song, along with the firstchapter of Ephesians, and see if that gives you anyclarity or peace. I am praying for you, I know you arebeing attacked because a doubtful future is a hardplace to be. But you know your ultimate future, andthat is all that matters. It is your refuge, and untilyou can serve as a different function in His kingdom,rest in the knowledge that you are beloved, that Jesus says to his father "I love her, father. She is mine."

My Savior, My God

I am not skilled to understand
What God has willed, what God has planned
I only know at his right hand
Stands one who is my Savior

I take Him at His word and deed
Christ died to save me this I read
And in my heart I find a need
For him to be my Savior

That He would leave His place on high
And come for sinful man to die
You count it strange, so once did I
Before I knew my Savior

My Savior loves, my Savior lives
My Savior's always there for me
My God He was, my God He is
My God He's always gonna be

Yes, living, dying; let me bring
My strength, my solace from this spring
That He who lives to be my King
Once died to be my Savior

That He would leave His place on high
And come for sinful man to die
You count it strange, so once did I
Before I knew my Savior

My Savior loves, my Savior lives
My Savior's always there for me
My God He was, My God He is
My God He's always gonna be