NOTE TO SELF: Love and Accept people as they are
Today's post I really love because it's about remembering the kind of love that God has shown to us. The kind of love that loves unconditionally. Candace thanks so much for sharing your heart!
Note to self:
The old adage, “never judge someone until you walk a mile in their shoes” has made me stop and think many times along the way in my 21 years. growing up, i was a slight “church snob,” in which the churches i grew up in informed me that people were not “good enough” if they didn’t attend church at least once a week, and you were looked down upon if you didn’t attend sunday night services, as well as let church eat up your wednesday night’s as well. smelly people, underdressed people, and loud people were looked down upon in the church. there were SO many people i misjudged, and rubbed the wrong way that may never accept a Christian because of things i said and did, intentionally or unintentionally. once i moved to college, i met amazing people, learned amazing things, and worked in amazingly hard places to work. between a summer job of working with low-income families, and a school year filled with working in the “hood” of knoxville, my heart learned to be way more loving and way less judging. through my two years at college, i learned to love people, to accept people, and to realize that’s what i should have been doing all along. therefore, if i could go back, not only would i change some wild crazy things about myself, like needing desperately to be the center of attention and craving the attention from guys, but instead, i would focus my desires on loving more like Jesus did, accepting people, and walking a mile maybe not in their shoes, but right along side of them.-Candace