Loving is Living

There are always those people in life who will disagree with you, either morally, politically, the list goes on. If you have an opinion, there is someone out there with a differing opinion... So what do you do about it? What makes the difference between having an opinion and having a belief is knowing why. If you don't know why you think something it's an opinion, and a rather poor one at that. If you know why and can explain it to someone you believe it and it becomes a belief. Too many people these days fill their life on opinions that they create based on their parents or pastors, their presidents or celebrities. We admire someone so we think and agree with them, but we never stop to ask why. On the flip side, we dont like someone and so we disagree with then, but once again never stopping to ask why. Unity only comes when we are willing to understand why someone else thinks what they do and give them that basic respect for their different thought process. We don't ha...

How many times have we looked past the needy, overlooked the wanting, ignored the unloved? This last week I did not post because I was at a summer camp for a week called Angle Tree week. Every camper this whole week had at least one parent that was incarcerated. They were inner city kids from Dallas and Houston. Though I was training to be staff this week I had the amazing opportunity to be around these kids and help them through. The situations they go through I cannot begin to understand. Today, when you read this post, I just hope you remember those who are less fortunate than you. Remember the lost, the hurting, the hungry... Remember the outcasts and do not continue to ignore them That being said, the purpose of this post is perspective. It is easy to get caught up in the bad things, the wrong things, the sad things, but remembering the blessing is hard. Remembering how great we have it to live in a free country that protects us and recognizes our basic rights... None of us do t...

I didn't post this last week because (as most of you know) I was in San Diego at the National tournament for speech and debate. While I was there something I thought a lot about was this idea about living like there is no tomorrow. I have been told to live without regrets, to live in the moment and live every day to its fullest. None of those things are inherently wrong, what was wrong is how I took them. I lived in every moment, not thinking about how it would affect the next. I lived like there truly might not be any tomorrow, rushing everything and taking things out of their right time. I had the opportunity to speak on eternal life during the tournament, it was the last speech I ever gave competitively, and by far it was my favorite. When we, as Christians, think of eternal life we think of life after death, we think of heaven and hell. It is my belief that eternal life is more than that, so much more. My belief stems from the principle laid for in John 10:10 that so few of u...