i love this book
"i read a book a long time ago about Mother Teresa. Somebody in the book asked her how she summoned the strength to love so many people.
She said she loved people because
they are Jesus,
each one of them is Jesus,
and this is true because it says so in the Bible.
And it is also true that this idea contradicts the facts of reality.
Everydody can't be Jesus.
There are many ideas within Christian spirituality that contradicts the facts of reality as i understand them. A statement like this offends some Christians because they believe if aspects of their faith do not obey the facts of reality, they are not true.
But i think there are all sorts of things our hearts believe that don't make any sense to our heads.
Love, for instance; we believe in love.
Beauty.
Jesus as God."
-Blue Like Jazz
i will definately say that i struggle with this. i don't love everybody. i don't even love the majority of everybody. i am entirely too judgemental to love people. someone will walk through the door at the big P&P, and it'll take me about 10 seconds to place them in a catagory. and i hate that. because close to half of the time, it's not a good catagory to be in.
in my defense, i suppose it's not so much that i dislike them as a person, i just dislike aspects of their personality or lack of common sense. i like common sense. i like it when someone doesn't ask me where the Crocs are when they're standing right next to them. i like it when they listen to me when i tell them that the mediums are on this row with the orange tags. no. don't look on the bottom row. do you see any orange tags on the bottom row? *swift kick to the face*
ok. not really.
so please, if you ever come into P&P, just do yourself a favor, and don't ask me if we have "those croc shoes" or where they are. just look to your left. they'll be there.
they don't walk away very often.
She said she loved people because
they are Jesus,
each one of them is Jesus,
and this is true because it says so in the Bible.
And it is also true that this idea contradicts the facts of reality.
Everydody can't be Jesus.
There are many ideas within Christian spirituality that contradicts the facts of reality as i understand them. A statement like this offends some Christians because they believe if aspects of their faith do not obey the facts of reality, they are not true.
But i think there are all sorts of things our hearts believe that don't make any sense to our heads.
Love, for instance; we believe in love.
Beauty.
Jesus as God."
-Blue Like Jazz
i will definately say that i struggle with this. i don't love everybody. i don't even love the majority of everybody. i am entirely too judgemental to love people. someone will walk through the door at the big P&P, and it'll take me about 10 seconds to place them in a catagory. and i hate that. because close to half of the time, it's not a good catagory to be in.
in my defense, i suppose it's not so much that i dislike them as a person, i just dislike aspects of their personality or lack of common sense. i like common sense. i like it when someone doesn't ask me where the Crocs are when they're standing right next to them. i like it when they listen to me when i tell them that the mediums are on this row with the orange tags. no. don't look on the bottom row. do you see any orange tags on the bottom row? *swift kick to the face*
ok. not really.
so please, if you ever come into P&P, just do yourself a favor, and don't ask me if we have "those croc shoes" or where they are. just look to your left. they'll be there.
they don't walk away very often.
