September 20th, 20205 Part II - the sequel

Hello (again?) dear Reader, and welcome. It's been a few hours: the Sun is shining though it's not deathly-hot (yet); all of our creatures are secure and resting calmly. 

Right now, I'm going nuts for a cigarette, but there's just no way it's going to happen. On the one hand, it really, really sucks! But, on the other hand, I - like literally everyone else on Planet Earth without exception - do not "need" them, no matter how much my flesh argues to the contrary.

Yeah, I am irrefutably a Christian, but that is precisely due to the fact that I AM NOT a "saint", but rather a sinner through and through in dire need of God and His help, every day, every breath, period. I throw myself on His mercy and put all of my trust in the price He paid on the cross, period. So, if you can relate to that, great! And, if you can't, honey, I can't create the first-hand experiential knowledge for you, only He can do that, and I pray that He does and soon, for all eyes who read these words or hear them read aloud by someone else, in Jesus' Name, amen.

See, I'm a weirdo in that, I want ALL of us to make it, and I do not care if you are: a different race from me, different politically, different in your faith or no faith at all, none of these things make a hill of beans' worth of difference to me: ALL means ALL, period.

So, when I see my brethren going down wrong (familiar to me!) paths, I feel compelled to try and pull them back, feeling like the very least that I can do as a person trying to be a decent human, is to speak the truth - but to speak that truth in love. That critical, latter part has me often holding my tongue because the facts are almost readily there - it's the 'in love' part that I often have to wait on. And, then, when I feel that I can speak to a thing without damaging the hearer, then I feel like that's the right time to go in. I just don't know how to do any better, but I'm willing to learn if you guys know of a way (please). 

 

That's all I've got for now. It's important to speak the truth in love, always in love though. Take care, thanks, see you next time (God willing).