Seminary Conclusions.

Some sort of grace rant...

So why is it so hard as a woman to move on from a guy? Why is it so hard to emotionally disconnect after something is so obviously over? Why do woman always look into these things like they could have done something to change it, like it is their fault, or they are not good enough.

I’ve discovered this isn’t true. It’s not a woman’s fault, she may have a part in it, but a relationship crashes because of two people. A relationship has always been about two people, two people with trust, compassion and love for one another. It is when one of those things disappears that relationships fall apart. If we all truly cared for other people, we wouldn’t have all these hardships. It would be easy to break up with other people, letting them know we love them for the person they are, but that we just can’t spend the rest of our lives living with them in romantic love. Respecting human beings seems to have disappeared from society. People cannot even respect each other on a purely primal level in order to not kill each other. Instead we have let ‘things’ get in the way of our ability to recognize the humanity in another. Society has become so obsessed with objects, that it is more important to shed blood in order to have money, then to see that poor defenseless flesh in front of us. Greed has done corrupt things to us, on so many levels. It all comes down to the fact that we don’t see the human in one another, we don’t respect one another.

People destroy one of the most intimate connections that they have with one another, when they stop realizing that we are all made of the same things, have the same emotions, and cherish life. I hope that is something we can realize through our relationship with God. That God created us, and although we do these terrible things to one another, and sometimes don’t even respect God, God still loves us. God puts up with all our crap, and still gives us eternal salvation, now that is love, that is respect and that is pure grace.

We could all use a little more grace in our lives towards one another. Show someone some love, even if you don’t think they deserve it, because let’s face it, did we deserve to have Christ die for us? No, but he gave that gift to us out of his love for us.

Labels: death, grace, greed, love, relationships

posted by Dana @ 1:42 PM