I watched the movie Bride wars today. I thought it was a really cute movie about brides and how they can turn into bridezillas. I also thought it was a great movie about friendship which is what the movie was really all about. I admit I would love to have a friendship like that where I have this one best friend who I can always count on and who can always count on me. I have not found that yet and sometimes I wonder if I ever will. I do get lonely at times and long for some or at least one girlfriend. I have my online friends and my blogging friends but it is still not the same as having a person to person friendship. I wish I had someone who I could ask to me my bridesmaid or maid of honor but I don’t have that person in my life.

I thought about love today. I remember when I first met my fiance. It was love at first sight and I knew one day I was going to marry him. I truly believe that the Lord brought us together and is the glue that keeps us together. I still have resentments which I am trying to get over. But, we’ve been through so much that in my heart I know we will get through this as well.

I am still coping with my cats death. We buried her today in the back yard. It was not the nicest experience and having to say goodbye. It was like that made it actually real that she is gone. It was very sad.

“Thou shalt love they neighbor as yourself, and this is the greatest commandment of them all.” – Jesus

If you love yourself and respect who you are and your rights then wouldn’t you want other people to have those same rights. I was reading a blog yesterday where a Buddhist was saying how Christians come on so strong and make her feel bad or try to make her feel bad for being a Buddhist and not a christian. But, didn’t the Buddha teach almost the same thing as Jesus?

Now there is a fight about rights should gay people be allowed to get married and call it a marriage? my answer to that question would be yes. Most of the people that are against it are so because they say it is in the bible that being a homosexual person is wrong? Yet does that mean we should not like others because of there race, religion, sexual preference, or gender?

If you love yourself and don’t like others and show every human being the same curtosy and rights that you have then you can not call yourself a christian. If you are not loving others the way Jesus loved us and still loves us you can not call yourself a christian. You are pharisee if you stick to the rigid laws rules instead of pening up your heart in love to those that are different.

The whole point of being christian and any religion for that matter is love. After all Jesus said it was the most important thing. “Now I know in part then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: Faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.” (1 cor. 13: 11-13)

You don’t have to agree with people but part of being a true christian is loving people. It is not just spewing out what the bible says or does not say about gays or anyone else for that matter. Being a true christian and true beliver is about loving others. God loves everyone just the same! He does not love you more because you belive ine very word of the bible. He does not love gay people any less because of who they love. Heck God mafe them the way they are for a reason and purpose. If he did not want there to be homsoeuals then he would have made everyone straight. End of problem! God does not make mistakes. If you are straight can you say I choose to e this way? No probably not. I love my fiance with all my heart and he popped into my life and I fell in love like there was no tommorrow. It was not a choice it just happened. I saw this man and my breath was taken away and I was in love. While it’s the same for everyone regardless of who you love or don’t love. Your heart does the leading. So then you are telling people they should deny who they are because you don’t agree with them. But, if God made them and loves them then he is ovbiously not denying who they are. Who we all are!

“People who are stuck here and adhere to RULES that have “An APPEARANCE of wisdom.” ( col 2: 23)

Jesus was saying the pharisees followed all these rules that looked like wisdom. But, that was just an appearance of wisdom. I believe the bible is true and it came from the Lord. But, I also know that it was man written. Based on the times. One of the passages is about an adulterer woman who they where going to stone to death. That was in Jewish Law to stone an adulterer. But, Jesus stopped them from doing it! If we still followed that law tons of people would be stoned to death every day!

Even Jesus did not follow the law. He was spiritual but not religious. He didn’t spute out religious antidotes about what was right and what was wrong he practiced what he preached by showing kindness and love to every human being he encountered. He showed equality to every person he encountered. He did not put one before another or one after because of whatever reason. If we don’t give people there basic rights we are basically saying that we don’t care about Jesus and the fact that he preached on love! We are saying we are no better then a pharisee following strict rules and regimens! Instead of what love is all about!

“They pay little attention to the “more important matters of law- Justice, mercy, and faithfulness.” (Matt 23:23)

I think it really depends on the people. I’m engaged and am getting married to my fiance when he comes home. By then I will be 22 and he will be 25. But we love each other and have dated for 8 years. I have known about people just out of high school who got married and stayed together there whole lives and some who got divorced because as they got older they grew apart. I’ve heard of people waiting until they where older like 30’s 40’s and stayed together and some got divorced and just didn’t get along anymore or whatever excuse they made. But, when you are in love you are. Marriage is a personal choice. Some people don’t want to get married and some people do. For me I think it is important. I want to take his last name and I want to tell people “this is my husband.”

That’s just my opinion