How childish! How foolish of me! It's so stinking easy to complain about someone behind there back. It's so easy to point out whats wrong with them. How stupid they act; how imature they are. I could do it all day if you gave me a good group to do it with.
Am I serious? Yes. for so long I have allowed myself to do this. And yes sometimes people tick me off and I need to vent. I need to talk to someone, but ONE person should be enough. When it's a group, then it truns it into gossip. 
My question is why have I let myself indulge in such an activity. Not only that but why do I even turn it into a joking matter? I sit and complain with people about a persons character (while displaying that my pathetic view of very own character) and yet in the end choose to do nothing about it. I don't go and talk to them. I don't go to encourage them to change (do this with humility, but check yourself first). I do absolutely nothing...well except complain some more. You know what the real  shocker is, though? I have done this to friends and have even done so recently. It wasn't till I heard someone else doing a couple weeks ago about someone I care about that I realized two things:

1. they were gossiping about someone I hold dear and had no intention of doing anything but complain and mock them.

2. I didn't defend the very person I thought I held dear.

How many times do we call someone friend but when push comes to shove we let someone talk about them behind their backs. You can "justify" it by admitting that they were/are wrong in regards to whatever it is, but there are proper ways of discussing things and the I have gone about it was incorrect and hurtful. Maybe they never know but it hurts the relationship because then it's harder to stand up when this stuff is brought up infront of your friend.
Harmful words spoken in solitude still hurt someone and it's usually the listener- whoever that may be. I'm not just talking about harmful with a sense of pain, but harmful to our character our hearts, our thoughts. It hurts the very person God wants us to be and it hurts God.
This is not only for the people we hold dear, but even more so for those that we don't.

Still, how foolish am I. For though I say nothing, my silence says everything.

Christianity = a nice pair of clothes. It looks good. It smells good. people look at you and think you have it together. But like every peice of clothing, it comes off...


Are you wearing your "christian" clothes today?

Replaced for a good time.

Easy to get really and understand. Can I blame’em? Hardly. It’s clear to me that the amount of times that I have replaced something or someone of great value with something temporary and a simple good time is far more than I can count. Funny though, that in the end I find myself wanting what it was I let slip away in the first place. No, I'm not expecting the person to feel the same way as I. Everyone has different view points, different ways of thinking, and different ways by which they understand. For me to expect that someone should think exactly as I think is complete and utter foolishness. Instead, I should be praising God for the different ways He allows us to think because it really shows diversity within His creations and our complexity. It’s also a known fact that I would truly get annoyed with someone who thought JUST like me. A mental twin, you could say. That's a bit scary to think about. ? It would be like hearing your thoughts echo back to you by someone else's lips. Not ideal.
But I must stop here. I’ll continue another time but my train of thought has come to a abrupt stop by the lingering mental pictures of what delicious delicacies  could be exciting my taste buds right now.

Until next time J