Low on the Go!

I did laundry for the first time ever! *lol*....i had to do 4 loads!!! BLARGH!!! The laundry room didn't open until today..and so, I had a whole month's worth of laundry...

Sometimes, I feel as though we still live in the same time period as when people began to claim that the world was round. It seems like such a long time ago that people were shunned because they claimed that the world was round. Some people have rose-coloured glasses on. The world isn't flat people! Perspectives of people in the church are so closed off. Christians in general ( not all..but most) have this IDEAL--this perfect vision of the way things are, and they like it to stay that way. Don't believe me? I can count the number of times that i've been in a church that has talked about sex. Or drugs. Or gambling. How many times have our pastors talked about homosexuality? Yes..i've heard sermons on homosexuality. The gist of it? Homosexuality is bad. And yes, as Christians, we shouldn't condone homosexuality. Does that mean we shun homosexuals? We focus so much on one aspect that we forget the other aspects. We forget that you can still love the person, without loving and condoning sin. Jesus loved the prostitute and the leper. Jesus loves us. We choose to believe that all the girls in the church are pure, and don't spread their legs at night. We choose to believe that church goers don't smoke. We choose to ignore these issues--because by prying deeper, we find that it hurts. We find that our glasses are actually tinted rose coloured. We find that the world isn't perfect. And that the world really isn't flat after all.

We haven't moved past the days when females were exiled out of the city when they had their periods, because they were dirty. We haven't moved past the days of leper colonies. We strive for this perfect utopia, and we've managed to believe that we've created it. But we haven't. Too many things have been swept under the rug. Our foundations are not secure. The walls are cracking. There's a drip in the pipe, but it's about to burst forth with gushing water.

Does our quest for this utopia mean that we should ignore and bypass these issues? Does that mean we ignore the fact that we could potentially have a prostitute who is struggling in our midst? By doing this, we don't eliminate the problems. We don't help people who are struggling with issues in their lives get past it. We tell ourselves that Jesus will heal all wounds. And yes. He will. But how does he heal when we refuse to acknowledge what is swept under the rug? We can't remain static and unchanging forever. To a certain extent, Christians have to change too. This is not to say that we should diverge away from the Word. This isn't what i'm saying at all. I'm just saying that we have to learn to acknowledge certain things. We need to learn to talk about issues in our world. We need to show the world that we aren't just a bunch of brainwashed, sheltered and cold people, who don't know anything about what impacts the lives of our non-christian brothers and sisters.

Open up your eyes guys. The world is staring at us in the face.