Ughh! I hate rain!

It is going to be raining for five more days…In some ways tis’ almost worse than the hurricane. Foundations weak from an earthquake and seven inches of steady wetness will create a mudslide in some areas. I think the theme verse for this week (at least in some areas) would be Psalm 40:1-2 “I waited patiently for the LORD; he inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock making my steps secure.” That is so tru! God heard Israel’s cry for help and gave them THE ROCK, Jesus Christ. 

Just some random thoughts about life in general ,today  I was reading this book called Please Stop Laughing at Us , and what made it interesting  (besides the fact that it was a book I hadn’t read before) was, it was written from a victim-of-bullying’s point of view. I always have read from the bully’s point of view and how they “see the error of their ways and end up being best friends for life with their victims” kind of thing. The author of it was just pouring out her heart… She shared journal entries and poems that she had written, all expressing a deep longing to connect with her peers. Her peers burned her so many times, both literally and metaphorically. Her parents did not fully understand how bad it was until she came home with knife marks on her face…And this was a Christian High School! Not that guarantees anything but still! It’s like that extreme southern Baptist pastor who protested at that gay soldier’s funeral, calling the war on terror a travesty. I‘ll agree with him that it is a travesty, all wars are. This, however, is a just and righteous war, as the bible clearly states it is okay to go to war if some evil dictator is killing innocent people. IN FACT, I would go so far as to add it is CHRISTIAN DUTY to go war and if you do not it is a sin. People like that ruin Christianity for the rest of the world, those, and tele-evangelist’s frauds. True Christianity is about love, yes, but also gentle force. None of us ever gets it right. A quote that popped into my head just now, “The only hypocrites I have to worry at church on Sunday is me, I, and I.”