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So, I'm sitting here at 1:00 am with so much and so little on my mind. What is it that I do to stay in so much drama? I mean, looking at my life one would think that I love drama, that I may even need it to survive because I'm always in the middle of everything. The fact is that I hate drama and everything about it. What does one do to stay out
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Firstly, I don't think that you should keep things to yourself. God chose to create more than just Adam and He chose to allow him and Eve to create even more life together. Since He chose to do it that way, I think God wants us to be a social creation. Keeping to yourself and not sharing doesn't allow that to happen. Sharing things with others creates vulnerability and thats one thing I'm really big on. Being vulnerable to someone takes you completely out of the situation. You have no control and that's how God can work best. A lot of people I meet get pretty uncomfortable around me because I have no problem sharing anything and everything about myself with anyone at all. It's a good feeling to not care what they think. And I can have that security because I know God passionately loves me despite everything about myself and my past.
I love the way you see God. So many people miss the entire true nature of God because they believe all that hellfire and damnation crap that preachers spit from the pulpit. Sure, that is a part of the character of God, but it's not all of it and it's not the largest part.
There's a verse in the second chapter of Jeremiah that really helps me understand the way God sees us when we fail Him. In essence, the verse says "What did I do that you stray from Me?" Something in that just makes me hurt. It's easy for me to turn my eyes from God when He is mad or angry, but I can't turn from Him when He is crying.
If we all really believed all that stuff we read in the Bible, the face of Christianity would completely change. There would be no need for any type of charity because the Church would do its job. There would be no hunger or poverty or lasting sadness because we really would all act like God says we should. But I don't think we can do that because we don't see God for who He is. We only see who some preacher tells us He is.
The only word in the Bible used to personify God is Love. The Bible says God is a just God, He's a caring God, He's a merciful God, but He IS Love. That with all that Jesus taught about acceptance of people but not sin, forgiveness and peaceful living and it would make sense for us just to see God as Love: Love in us, Love for us, Love in spite of us.
There have been a lot of times that my Christianity has been questioned by other Christians because I drink every now and then, because I like cigars and even because I'ma Democrat. But those things aren't me and they don't define me. They are simply things I do. I am not what I do. If we believe what the Bible says, after we relinquish control of our lives to God, we are nothing. Everything is Him. And He is Love.
So don't let it get to you. If people want drama, let them have it. Just let them have it on their own. You should be accepted regardless of what you do, say, or think.That's what Christ did. And I think He's a pretty good example to follow.
Hang in there. You're in a good place.
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