Reality

• This is probably going to turn out weird… like a whiny baby weird.

  Sometimes I feel like we as Christians have to be passionate about a certain something. You know? Like I have to be wearing an organization’s name on my t-shirt, and it better be a freaking cool t-shirt or it’s just not a good enough cause. 

  And if you wear the same organization’s t-shirt as so and so, it’s also not a very good thing. 

  Maybe this is just me, but I feel a whole lot of pressure to dive into some cause of some sort. It’s intimidating to me because I don’t really feel like I can do that. I mean, it’s really cool to see people passionate about one thing, but I don’t know if Im going to be able to do that. 

  There’s so much going on in the world and I just want to love people. I don’t even know how to love them well half the time, but I have this fiery feeling in my heart that keeps me awake at night and compels me to find any way I can to make sure people know they are loved. I think I do this well by listening to people’s stories (Maybe that’s why Im a counseling major)… But that’s not really good enough to go on a t-shirt.
  
  I was reading in the book of John today (ok, I was studying for a Gospel of John test…) And I just love how confident Jesus was when He loved people. He always knew how to love people well.
  He always knew what to say.
  He always knew when to back off.
  He always had confidence.

  I just love that.

  I want to be that confident in the way I love people. I don’t think Jesus needed a cool t-shirt or a popular blog to feel like He had to right to jump into people’s lives and love the crap out of them. He just did it. And it wasn’t all that cool back then. I don’t think people admired the way He did things sometimes. It was a little weird to some people.
  
  I want to be so passionate about loving people that it doesn’t matter what context I do it in.
  If Im an RA, I want to love well.
  If Im living back at home, I want to love well.
  If Im working at Walgreens, I want to love well.
  If Im working for an organization nobody knows about, I want to love well.

  I sick and tired of basing my faith on how good it looks on a t-shirt.
  
  I just want to know that I am being Jesus to people everyday. I want Jesus to be proud of me. I just want to figure out how to love Him more.
  
  So this was all some sort of reality check for me I guess.  
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