election day!


I am SO ready for this day to be over. I stayed up late last night, monitoring polls, praying, sending emails, making comments at blogs. I got up super early this morning to go to early morning prayer at the church. It was still dark when I got there and then it was light when we were done praying. I am very excited for today. I am expecting God to move today.

In other news, I found this note on my door yesterday. It was crumpled up and smashed under the door handle. It was written in children's handwriting on the back of an empty envelope. It said, "Jesus says love your neighbor treat people like you want to be treated." It was puzzling to me. I could not figure out why some kid would leave that at my door unless they either mistook my home for someone else's or unless it was because I wasn't here on Halloween to give them candy (I was at a party at our youth group!). I haven't gone out of my house for over a week except to go to church with my husband on Sunday morning and to go to youth group Sunday night. Literally, I've been in my house day after day, so I can't imagine what it is that I could have done recently to treat someone so that they would have to quote this verse to me. My life's mission is to make a difference for good in the lives of as many people as I can. So, this note is like telling a post man "you should deliver mail for a living." My suspicion is that this has to do with handing out candy, and if that is so, then what a sorry set of values this kid has! To start out as a hypocrite so young. It's people like that who give Christians a bad name. I imagine this group of kids in the neighborhood finding no one home and deciding that this is wrong, so they scrounge around for a piece of paper to write on and something to write with, perhaps even with some coaching from a parent. If this unknown writer knew of my faith, it is puzzling what they think that this verse would say to me. And if they didn't know of my faith, I cringe to think of how many other Scripture notes they might have left that would only make Christians look bad. I am shaking my head in amazement and shame for them. If I am missing something here, then someone please tell me because this is a mystery to me.

Posted: Tue - November 2, 2004 at 08:07 PM           |

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