tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526991149372294575.post8587891818012041376..comments2013-12-21T21:02:32.560-05:00Comments on Nothin' Sweeter Than Georgia Peaches: Words I Couldn't SayUnknownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12233233936248070174noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526991149372294575.post-61207583072221158172012-07-17T23:24:21.184-04:002012-07-17T23:24:21.184-04:00I am glad that someone from my Northwest Oklahoma ...I am glad that someone from my Northwest Oklahoma community shares some of the same views as I do. After coming out of the loving, but still sheltered environment that we grew up in,I have gone out. I have mixed with people. I have found friends. I have found more God in unexpected places than I could have ever imagined. One of my very close friends told a group of us that she was a lesbian. She had been fighting it for sometime, but she knew it as truth and wanted to tell us about her decision. At first, I was troubled by it because I still know it is unbiblical. However, with months of prayer and thought, I knew that as a Christian it is my job to LOVE not to JUDGE. It is said that all sin deserves death. I have sinned. I deserve death. I have been forgiven and saved. All Christians sin because all people sin. Who am I to say that their sin is worse than mine? How "Christian" would it be to let myself get so wrapped around their lives that I ooze judgement and hate from mine. I always try to live as though I have a plank in my own eye, and I need not be worried about the splinter in someone elses. I am called to bare fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, and self-control. It is also said in Matthew 22:34-36 to love your God first and to second love your neighbor as you love yourself. Those words alone give me the desire to love people of all creeds and nations as I love myself. It is not my place to judge, but to love.Always Allysonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00064499687743742882noreply@blogger.com