On My Brain

I had to post this, because it has been on my brain for a while now.  It kills me nowadays how nothing can be said to anyone without someone else thinking it is about them.  No opinions can be expressed without people thinking that you hate them.  Is that not how God created us??? With the ability to think on our own??  Is that not what got Adam and Eve in trouble??? God knew they would sin, it wasn't some great surprise to him.  He gave us the ability to think for ourselves, but he also gave us the ability to know and do better.  So, just because someone is talking to someone else about something, this doesn't mean it is about you all the time.  Just because someone's opinion differs from yours doesn't mean they hate you.  If that were the case, I'd sure have a lot of people to hate.  When families stop speaking because they always think someone is "out to get them" or that someone is always talking about them or their opinions differ, the problem is clear....people need to look at their lives and examine what is really going on.  While I may not agree with you, I don't hate you.  You are entitled to your own opinion.  While I may talk to other family members about things, it isn't necessarily about you and if it is, it isn't necessarily bad.  I don't worry about what you may say, because the people that matter, know better.  I have more important things to do and think about than who is saying and doing what.
     God gave us free will and with that the knowledge of right and wrong.  He knows we will mess up and that is why we have the avenue of forgiveness.  He never intended for us to be run like a dictatorship.  He doesn't expect us to cave in to things that we don't agree with just to make others happy and it drives me crazy that people want to "take their ball and go home" just because their rules differ from yours.  There is something seriously wrong when you are so convinced that people are always talking about you that you speak to them if you have to and otherwise you want to yell and scream and cut them out of everything.  Think about it people....the world does not revolve around you....your world may, but that is the only one that does.

Love ya'll!!