Why do Bad things happen to Good people...?

Ok about a week ago I was asked the question "if God is real why do Bad things happen to Good people...?" You know, to understand or even just wrap your mind around this question you have see the difference in coincidence vs. choice. You see God loves us enough to give us "free will" meaning we as humans can obviously do whatever we want whether it's be in love or hate a person, drink and drive, love God or not. Love isn't really love unless you have the option to love. We choose to love God, we choose to go to church and lift our hands in surrender telling the Lord we love him... And that's what makes it such a sweet fragrance to the Lord. We have free will and still choose to love him. But now with that same free will we can choose to make bad "choices" and some times the result of that bad choice hurts not only us but other people as well. Take the story of the man that chooses to drink and drive and while driving he hits the pregnant woman and kills her and her baby. This of course makes God sad but we can't blame God because of the "choice" made by another. We can't thank God for loving us enough to give us this gift of free will, (and yes it is a gift, God could have made us robots) and then begin to doubt God or get angry with him when he doesn't step in and take back the free will once given. It's not fair. When the two parties involved are both human, (meaning like not a fallen coconut from a tree or lighting hitting a tree and making it fall on the road) but rather two humans the outcome of their actions are a result of choices not coincidence. In a sense its "out" of God's hands.

Homosexuality

Now granted these are 'my thoughts' and since it's 'my blog' I'm going to speak freely for a minute. When it comes to the subject of homosexuality I have a wide range of feelings and emotions. I feel that here in America our feelings, whether for or against, are usually summed up with one question, "Are you for or against?" In my opinion this question is silly because you're asking someone if they are for or against something that for the most part includes either a friend or family member. Most of us have either a friend or family member that is gay. So if you don't have the time to sit down and have 'real' conversations about gays in America then I would rather you just not ask me the typical question "How do you feel about homosexuality?" My feelings can't be summed up in the answer "I'm against it" mainly because in today's society to be 'against' homosexuality is no longer about being against the sin only but rather your saying "I hate the person." For me that is just not true. I have nothing against anybody that would like to make that their lifestyle, but I should be allowed to simply have a view on the matter without being made out to be this discriminating, hating, un-kind gay basher. I mean come on where does the line for equality begin and end? Or does it begin and end with whatever makes the gay community happy because the way I see it is if my gay friend (yes I gay friends and I would go to bat for them all and they know this about me also) chooses to be gay by choice I should be allowed to say to them I disapprove of your lifestyle so on that level we now differ but on the level of love, compassion, friendship, trust etc. nothing has changed. I guess what I'm trying to say is tolerance and love are two different things. I love my friends that have chosen that lifestyle, but I shouldn’t have to tolerate it being FORCED in my kid's school and their teachings. I should be able to teach them the way I believe without society looking at me like Im spreading a message of hate. Never let us forget that our family and friends, maybe even you have served and fought, some even died for the rights of homosexuals, but those rights should never be given at the expense of another person’s rights. We as American should stop being lazy and have a for real conversation about our feelings on the matter.

Kissy Face...!

Guys have you every known a girl in every photo she takes she makes this weird looking kissy face at the camera…? As if she works for some lip gloss or lip stick company that requires her in every photo to show off her usually not so plump lips. So women if you don’t work for Revlon Im asking you to take my advise and stop. I mean sure it was cute and fun/sexy for the first 5000 women that did it but by the time you being the 5,976,643,829,763,902 women that decides to huddle up in some smoky bar or in front or the bathroom mirror while you wait for your friend to come out of the restroom stall you begin to put your hand on your hip and get ready to blow a kiss to the camera just remember that by now we men find it just plan annoying.