Today is Friday, April 8th, 2005; Karen's Korner #520
I had the opportunity to talk with a friend in the last few days. She is a Christian gal who continually looks to God for His answers, attends church to learn and grow, and wants to do what is the right thing.
She has blown it in the past and is in the middle of making some hard choices which will affect her future. One thing I heard her say, "I don't know if my Christian friends will like me when they find out what I am going to do. I don't know if my church family will still accept me........"
There are some things on her list of God's "dos and don'ts; shalls and shall nots" where she has done the opposite of what she knows is the right thing.
Most Christian people know the reason for the teachings of the Bible: if we do what it says (with God's help!), we will be happier and have a more satisfying life. They are written down for a purpose.
But what about when we screw up?
As I left our conversation, I thought, "God help me; help our church family to be a safe place to come to when we fail. Help me, help our church family to be a soft place to fall."
I want to be less judgemental, more accepting, more loving and kind....of both those outside the church family and those inside it, who should no better. Because I need others to do that for me.
The God with all the rules and all the right answers does that for us all the time. He catches is when we fall and He holds on to us when we fail. That is a God worth hanging on to, worth worshipping, worth walking along with on into forever!
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