If you guys have followed my blog since the beginning then you may have noticed the face lift I gave it. See my original name, and everything just didn't fit anymore. The purpose of this blog has changed and the name needed to change with it. To something a little more me, and seeing as I am definitely a country girl at heart I figured country and heart was a fitting title. I hope you guys enjoy my new blog style.
So I want to share with you guys what happened to me today. See I'm in Bible College studying to be a pastor right now, and I'm not really sure thats what I want to do with my life, but thats the direction I'm heading for now. All I can say for sure is that I know I love people. People are my passion. But see up until today I've been saying that and saying that but I haven't been acting it. I say that I want to inspire people, but my actions haven't lined up. Well today in class my prof. was talking about how we are supposed to love people not for whothey are portraying themselves to be, but we need to love people for all the potential of who they can be in relationship with Jesus Christ. Just because someone is acting rudely doesn't mean I should be acting rudely back, instead I need to treat that person according to the potential they have inside them.
Now I don't know maybe you guys read that and were like, uh yeah no duh! But for me this was like huge revelation. Because I realized how I say I love people, and I want to inspire them but then because they aren't acting perfectly that changes how I react and treat them. Well I need to apologise to everyone I have ever treated badly because you know what? That was wrong of me. And I figured out the way I can inspire people is by treating them according to the potential they have in them. When you treat someone who would seemingly not deserve honour with honor they begin to rise to the level that you are treating them on. And that is how I want to live treating people so good that they rise up to be that good, or greater!
I really do love people, and its not going to be an overnight change of how i treat people, I am constantly telling myself to not say certain things, but its worth it in the end.
How can you guys treat people better around you? Are you building people up? Or tearing them down? Are you challenging people to rise to a higher calling on their life because of the way you treat them or are you minimizing people? Think about the way you treat people, it's really important!
Let me give you a new command: Love one another. In the same way I loved you, you love one another. This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples—when they see the love you have for each other. - John 13:35
Infinite x's and o's
-A
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