Today after I finished making breakfast I was sitting at the table scrolling through Facebook and I came across a post from a family member that set me off in the wrong direction. This person insists on posting a countdown to the election. I’m not sure why it made me mad but I just felt that it’s negative. I thought about it and he posts negative stuff all the time. Not negative per se, however, he is a complainer about how things are and I’ve just about had enough of people complaining! I’m sick of it and I don’t think I should have to leave Facebook (although that is a solution) to stop seeing it.

I started this scathing post to say that I don’t need to see countdowns, which lives matter because they all matter, people clinging onto stuff done hundreds of years ago…. you get the gist of what I was writing. I rewrote part of it twice, was interrupted twice and put my phone down while I took a shower. When I came out of the shower I had decided not to be part of the problem, a complainer about the complainers. What that makes me is another complainer and that’s not how to handle things that make you mad. I am positive God put his hand over mine as I typed and stopped me from posting that message. He knows best always. As I took my morning walk and talked with God, we discussed that Love should be in all we do and then I thought about Corinthians 14: 4-7 which if you’re not familiar with it says:

⁴ Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant ⁵ or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;^[a] 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love is not perfect but it should guide how we act. Admonishing people publicly for how poorly they act isn’t the way to be an example as to the kind of people we should be. If what you do and how you act don’t reflect the above excerpt then maybe you need to reevaluate how you’re handling your life. I know in the last year specifically but moreover, in the last 10 years, I have had to search deeply for who I want to be for the rest of my life. I’ve made some changes through faith and with some big help from God and I’m getting there. I’ll never be perfect but I can try not to be part of the problem each and every day.