Plus I am supposed to rescue turtles from the street.
LOL Firefly!!! That was always my Dad's job! I swear he could not pass up a single turtle without stopping and getting it out of the road - and I don't care if it was on I-20! Me - I just try to kill myself missing the kamikazi squirrels that live around here. <img src="/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />
Life lessons, hmmmm...
I've learned that it is not my place to judge. Which is a much simpler statement to make than it actually is to
live! Because I cannot
agree with everyone's choice of lifestyle, but even if I don't, I must
accept it because it is not
my life. And I find it easier every day to separate people from their actions so that I can make friends with a person, even if I don't agree with them about
everything.
My eye-opening moment came when I was in the hospital for depression and met another woman there. We got along really well, and she was hurting terribly. She was a sever bi-polar disorder. The day she left she was escorted off by police - it was then that I found out that she had been having a realtionship with a 15 yr old, and was under arrest for that. I immediately went to judge her and dismiss every kind and sympathetic thought I had had for her, and then I stopped when I realized that she was no different from what she had been the day before. She was still a terribly sick and hurting woman - which was probably why she had gotten into this relationship to begin with. And I had to go back and rethink every other judgemental decision I had made and realize that I would
never know all the facts in every story - that only God does, so only He is qualified to make judgements.
but it is still hard not to do sometimes. <img src="/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />