Those People
I’m once again reminded why it is that we do what we do. We are those people, you know the ones… the people who seem to be a little different than everyone around them. The ones who seem to be unable or unwilling to conform. The people that others will say, “you don’t want to be like those people”.
It’s funny, at one time I wanted to be like everyone else, cool, popular, handsome and all together. I wanted to be happy and in my search for happiness all I found were dreams and ambitions that never seemed to be realized or never quite seemed to be enough. What I needed was love, acceptance and forgiveness and I found it with someone who loves “those people”. Jesus said, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor—sick people do. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners.” Jesus didn’t turn away those who didn’t look like him, those who had a past, he shunned those who thought they had it all going on. Those who thought they were already good enough.
If you think that you are too far gone, that you’ve done too much or been to bad, if you are one of “those people” I invite you to come and hang out with some more of us, Real people with real lives… eXperience church is coming to Detroit Lakes. Join us as we experience life together and explore what it means to live like Jesus.
e compares to other’s. How bad is it, would someone else ignore it or would they find it debilitating? Sometimes I would like to know if I’m being a baby or am toughing it out. I realize that it doesn’t really matter, to whomever owns the pain, it is real and knowing how someone else is effected is irrelevant. I wouldn’t trade my burdens for the unknown of someone else’s. I will keep my own, however significant or insignificant they may be.