Amendment one

So I'm not gonna lie, I haven't followed much about this amendment much before a week or so ago, mainly because I thought it was only an amendment to define marriage, and honestly, I'm still torn about that.  However, the more i listen to it and read and see people's opinions and judgmental the more I had to research.  And the more I have realized that people feel that they should be in charge of making everyone else's decisions.  The Bible commands us to worry about ourselves and trust that the only judgment that matters is God's judgment.  so why do we sit here and judge everyone else.  We're supposed to pull the plank out of our eye before worrying about the splinter in someone else's eye.  (Man I feel like a preacher).  That was one of the first sermon's we heard at Crosspointe, and one of the ones I still struggle with.  We need to fix ourselves before we can worry about others.  As we fix ourselves we will come to realize that the issues we've been having with others aren't nearly as big as we've been making them out to be.

You know this is one thing I've been having a hard time with in direct relationship with one of our friends and their choices.  I don't understand how people can make awful decisions that screw up their life and the things they once stood for, but isn't that what people said about you and I getting married so quickly and so young?  People still don't understand half the choices I've made- hell, I still dont' understand half the choices I've made in life.  I don't understand at what point in our life we start feeling like we can judge other people.  Is it a learned behavior by children from their parents?  Is it engrained in us?  How do we stop this vicious cycle of us always being worried about everyone else instead of being worried about ourselves?  I know sometimes people like worrying about others and pointing out their flaws because it makes us seem better, but I don't understand.  I see it already in the little ones at school and church, but I still see it in adults all the time too.  We have a justification for it too.  We call the cops on a speeder because they might harm someone if they crash, but weren't we just speeding behind them?  We tell the teacher when another kid is cheating, but aren't we looking at someone else taking a test to realize they're cheating?

I don't get it.  I know a lot of what I'm venting on right now I have to work on, but that is one of the things I'm working on because it bothers me so much when others do it, so I'm trying to stop.  i suppose I should start with our friend and his other half to try and practice accepting them and not judging their choices cuz Lord knows I don't understand them but hey do I understand my own decisions?  Not really.

As always, I'm opinionated and I ramble, but didnt' you fall in love with all of me?  ;)

Good night my love.

Forever and Always