Frustrations

I will apologize up front for this one. Although I should not have certain people in mind when I write things, it is hard to remain objective and just get the point accross. This blog is something that I am attempting to use to get my feelings out so they don't all stay in and stew. But some of these situations running through my head are not my fights to fight and sometimes they aren't worth fighting.

Have you ever felt like you just wanted to slap someone? I know...this isn't the best way to feel, but like I stated I'm not perfect. But anyways, back on point. You think that maybe if you did this it would change their whole attitude. You know like, "Slapping some sense" into someone. That's how I feel today. I would love to slap some sense into some people who can't stop their mouths from running. I also think about the saying "The grass is always greener on the other side". People get this way about churches. They think (or should I say that they SAY because we know all too well that people don't like to keep their mouths shut), "Well that preacher doesn't yell in his sermons" or "Their praise and worship is more contemporary and they always have a drummer". Now...have you heard the new twist on the grass is greener quote? (Thank you to pinterest for this one) The grass is greener on the side you water. Oh how I love this statement. If you aren't happy with something, the best thing to do is to try and fix it. If you can't, you can't and you move on. But people just love to go to this person and that person to talk. Maybe it starts out innocent and you are truly trying to work together to fix something, but it usually always gets to the point of complaining. And there is nothing productive that comes from the conversation.

I have been directly effected (or affected, I can NEVER remember the rule on this one) by a person's blatent lies and slander, and I have to tell you that if you are doing this to someone else, shut up. If you are complaining day after day about someone or something...please just shut your mouth. I can deal with the pain, but when I watch it happen to others it just makes me angry. This kind of behavior is not making anything better and it certainly isn't helping the complainer because people just don't want to be around them. It hurts me to see so many people who have to deal with this kind of thing every day. How can we fix this? How do you move on and just finally ignore the hurtful whispers of rude people?

I don't really know where I am going with this blog. I don't know if my thoughts are jumbled or if they make perfect sense. (I'm sure they make perfect sense to people who have been hurt) This brings me back to my above comment of sometimes it's just not worth the fight. What I mean by this is you can't spend your life trying to change everyone's opinion of you. Some people are just so unhappy with themselves that they are just not going to like you. And as long as you know that you are right with God, then you don't have to worry what anyone else thinks of you.

I want to end with this with this verse “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but not everything is constructive" 1 Corinthians 10:23.
So before you start to talk about someone think about the above verse. You can bad mouth that person (the minister), but is it going to be beneficial for me or them? I think the answer is almost always going to be no.

Until next time my friends...