in the love of Christ

Disagreement Today, I am thinking about how much a simple difference in understanding can hurt a relationship.  There is this thing called "the Bible" and it has tons of words in it. These are words and messages inspired by God to teach us humans about Himself. It has a great sentimental and theological value to it for many people and I have seen people ready to fight over a difference of opinion over one word in it.  Recently, there has been this video going around on Facebook by a passionate young man who shares some of his thoughts by spoken word poetry about how he views God and the whole video starts out with "What if". He goes on to portray his feeling about religion in one video and sexuality in another and they are very interesting as well as encouraging views, even if you don't agree with all that he says. He is, by the way, a human who is determining some of his beliefs and sharing them as a human. this is similar to writing a song or poem which people...

This week, I took my car in to the shop to get a free oil change. For those of you who know me, I am all about coupons and this was a deal. While my car was back there, I asked them to take a look at my tires and rotate them since that was free, too. Well, after about 30 minutes, the friendly man came over to ask me to follow him so I can "Take a look" at something. Do those words scare anyone else? Let me say this before I go on. I have had my check engine light on for...more than a few months but I chalked that up to bad sensors. Also, my car has been so extremely loud when I drive it. As I drive on the interstate, I can hear a loud roar coming from outside my car that I thought was just part of the car getting old...it wasn't. My radio/CD player goes in and out each time I hit a bump or run over a twig. It is a little touchy. Needless to say, I have learned to ignore some things because I have chalked them up to old age for my dear boat of a car.  To move on, the man a...

I really don't even know where to start some days. Here I am, one more day at Toot's where I have worked for almost nearly a year and I realize that my time there is spent, and hopefully well. I am heading to a new job in a new place, doing something I have never one before. I will be a student nurse in an ER here. So, I am evaluating. I am evaluating how I did this last year as a waitress, a co-worker and a friend. What it comes down to is, how well did I give glory to God in my work? How well did I share the hope of Christ with those around? I would like to say I did better than I actually did but I am unsure. I am unsure of whether I did any good at all. I am unsure of whether my loose cannon, no self control moments caused more harm to the Kingdom of God than good. All I can see are these moments. The enemy is sitting with me pointing them out like the stars in the sky. "So many screw up moments, Hannah! It's embarrassing. You would have done better to never try wi...