Once upon a time I used to work at a job that wasn't at my home. When I was first married in fact I worked at place where I rotated shifts, sometimes days, sometimes nights, sometimes all night. It was a ruff way to start out. My husband worked days and went to school for awhile, he was a Route Supervisor and that took 50 hours a week so he actually quit his job and went to work at Circle K working graveyard and still going to school full time, now that was fun! By now in our lives we had two children. I've told you this before I like the work place, but people are not kind there (to be clear, some are) but the majority are not, they are kicking and screaming to get to the top, get a raise, survive til they go home again, on and on we could go ... and shift work PLZZZZZ they Hate each other! 
Why is it that people actually hate? It seems almost cool now, in todays world to be a Hater, why is that?
Hate and love are so close and yet so far away on the scale of balance that there is no balance.
It's been on my mind all week this dilema of love and hate, love 'em and leave 'em, how many times do we shatter someone else's reputation, when do we, how do we love the porcupine?
Art, Music, poetry, movies, stories, articles, crime and passion are just about all related to as
Love Stories and/or Hate Crimes.
Do we apply, learn, ever go fix anything?
The Scriptures are full to the brim of stories of Love and Hate, people and families, places and circumstance to apply, learn and teach by. Today in my seminary class we talked about judging and gossip, reputations, hate and love. If you believe in Jesus Christ or not as a Messiah or Jehovah His story is an example that we can apply, learn from and use to better our lives in general. It is the easier road to judge, criticize, tear down and destroy - much easier to say I HATE THAT! At times on Facebook I wish there was a dislike button, but isn't it nice that there isn't, saving us from ourselves!?
In the New Testament we are taught "Judge not, that ye be not judged."
But I think that most often we forget the rest of it "For with what judgement ye judge, ye shall be judged: and what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." Matthew Jesus sat down to eat with the publicans and the sinners as well as his apostles and family. Do I, sit down with everyone alike? I like to think that I do, but probably not.
Once Austin told me that he just "didn't know what my kids could do that I wouldn't forgive them or judge them". I tell ya, I hold that sacred, close to my heart that he thought that well of me. In High School I pretty much think I was nicer to the friend who didn't have my same standards than I was to the ones who did, because IN MY JUDGMENT they weren't kind --because they were so judgmental! It's a anomaly!
Matthew, my nephew once said to one of my kids that "if someone needed a home, I wasn't going to kick them out". I like to think that it's true, I always thought my Dad was like these compliments my family gave me - I always wanted to foster children because I watched him have so many extra kids around the riding stables, I was always jealous of them being able to be around the horses, my brothers, and my Daddy.
The Spirit of the Lord is a spirit of kindness; it is a spirit of patience; it is a spirit of charity and love and forbearance and long suffering ... Lucifer is exercising every means to destroy the souls of the human family. He is more active than he has ever been and he works in such an insidious way. I will not take time to enumerate the many ways he employs but there is one way in which he operates, and has operated from the beginning of the world, and that is to tempt one individual to destroy the reputation of another by saying unkind things of them .. It is so easy to criticize someone else, so easy to find fault, and sometimes we speak harshly of our neighbors and friends. --George A. Smith
but let's be real...we all judge, criticize murmur maybe even hate I pray we can find the strength to overcome to forgive, forget not judge, not gossip, not ruin reputations making that persons problems bigger, but be kind, love them without being walked on and let people into our lives, accept "the sinner", even if we don't approve of what we call "the sin".
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