Cold

A ripple for every moment

Frigid sky scattered here and there. Shadows watch mountains who are not easily scared. Snowflakes fall as time stands still, while sun's warmth trembles under the treacherous chill. Depths run thin as the ice grows, and blue meets white in the blue shallow. Everything covered perfectly in a blanket, one that is cold and doesn't need to fake it.

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Two things this weekend, both which were difficult but with a strong point. Let's start with easier one first.

I got pulled over by a cop for the first time this weekend. I was driving home from work behind Matt. I was on the phone with my mom. She said she wouldn't be home for dinner but I could pick something up for dinner and she would pay me back. I was just about to the stop light to the left of Matt when I quickly decided to go to Wendy's. I pulled across three lanes rather sporadically, behind Matt, into the right turn lane and finished my conversation with my mom. I called Matt up, "Dude, did you see that wicked turn I pulled?" Matt answered, "Yeah, so did the COP." I look up in my rear view mirror as I'm pulling into the drive-thru with a squad car right on my bumper. He flashed his lights and meandered over. I saw him check my backseat as I carefully rolled down my window. A light hit me in the face, "I saw that crazy move you pulled back there." "Yeah.... I was on the phone with my mom, she said she wasn't going to be home for dinner and so I made a quick decision to go to Wendys." "Can I see your license?" "Ok." He went back to his car as thoughts rushed through my head, along with a few swear words. He came back, "Alright, I just had to check this out." "I'm sorry about that back there." "Oh, it's no problem, it's just a safety thing." "Ok, thank you." "Have a good night." *Big sigh of relief as I rolled up my window*

I slowly pulled up to the menu and ordered. I called up Matt again. I told him what happend. He said, "Dude, it was so cool. He was taking a left turn on the other side of the street. He took this huge U-turn when he saw you, and his car started to fish-tail when he ran after you. It was awesome." "Are you serious?" "Yeah, it was like something out of a movie." *We both laughed* Hard learned lesson though... if you see a cop, drive carefully. I saw him when I turned onto the street, I just didn't think he was still there. So better safe than sorry, always drive carefully.

Part two of this post ends with Sex Talk Part 2 from the lutheran church. Hard words to hear yesterday morning. The talk was on homosexuality and divorce. Granted I do not fit any of these categories, I do know people in both situations. And it was hard to hear these words, because they are people close to my heart. Although difficult, Pastor Ben found a way to give us the Word and a way to deal with it.

Homosexuality, is a sin. But that doesn't give us the right to go out into the world and point fingers. It doesn't give us the right to point at homosexuals and yell, "Sinner." As Pastor Ben stressed many times, "Hate the sin, love the sinner. Hate the sin... love.. the sinner." Homosexuality may be a sin, but calling it out doesn't make you any better a person. Everyone has sinned, what makes homosexuality any worse than any of the sins you've committed. Here is a verse. Romans 2:1 - "You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgement on someone else, for whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgement do the same things." God loves all of us, he does. Love the sinner, hate the sin.

Divorce, is a sin. First look at the following verse, Matthew 19:3-6 - Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?" "Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,'and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'? So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."

Pastor Ben had play dough to demonstrate this concept. A red ball was male, a green ball was female. He mashed the two together to show a union/marriage of the two. But when you try to rip them apart, there is always two colors in each ball. There is always a piece left. Man cannot separate two people, only God can.

Re-marriage also is a sin. Luke 16:18.

I'm going to paraphrase the rest of the message directed by Paston Ben here. This is hard to hear, it really is. Almost everyone knows someone who has went through this. We know family and friends in this situation. This is hard, incredibly hard. Re-marriages can be awesome, and do awesome things. God has shaped these relationships and made them strong and beautiful. Do you know what an annulment is? It is a price you pay to erase a sin. Forgiveness comes at one price, Jesus's life on the cross, not any money in your pocket. If we as people, start passing judgement, pointing fingers, without looking at our own heart, it makes us no better than them. Maybe they do need to repent, maybe they need to seek God, maybe they can ask to honor Him for who they are today. But let us not feel guilty, because if they feel guilty, than so should everyone else. Jesus never shunned these people, he sought these people out. Jesus hung out with these people all the time, the ones he couldn't stand were the ones who claimed to be perfect. We all sin, we just need to admit it and ask for His forgiveness.

My intention here today was not to upset anyone. There is something special in all of us, something God has given us. We were all born to make mistakes and born to be sinners, but that doesn't mean we can't be God's children. He loves us, each and everyone of us. Do you understand that, do you?

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