Coming up with words that begin with "e": everlasting, ever, enlist, endurance, enduring, and so the list goes on. I'm a wordy person...shoot, you read my blog, you know. I also make code words for people or things that frustrate me. This week's word "flubber".
Why? I've logged onto to social media this week and been bombarded with people sharing their views which I think is awesome. I also see their wording becoming reckless, flippant, and brash and that makes my soul sad. I was taken to Romans 14: 5-6 and thought of the Jews & Gentile Christians who were trying to decipher God's law. Paul is trying to push both parties into a tolerance for one another. So that they not only see one another respectfully but through brotherly love rather than letting their opinions become prejudice. I know I really was thinking this week, right?
I needed to take time to write an open letter to my family & friends and have an open conversation. I want you to know that words do hurt. They have strength, meaning, and empowerment at their best. At their weakest they are brazen, lavish, and enlist hate rather than love. That makes both my mind, soul, and heart break.
I would challenge us not to be "flubber" in the world bouncing from one idea, issue, or complaint. I think it's time to evaluate, define, and take worth in who we are and what God has created us to do. I did just that this week rather than get into a debate, criticism, or argument with people I love. For years I've said I will agree to disagree with you but I love and care about you. Know why? Because God designed me with the soul purpose to love others, care for them, and see both sides of the coin. He gave me the ability to know what I stand for and against. What he didn't give me is the ability to cope with the bombardment of what I perceive as negativity in His name.
I've been praying this week for God to help me with this. You see I don't need your scorn I do that all by myself. Know why? God gave me a sense of right & wrong. I know there are things from my past that weren't right but at the moment I did them. And, I'm confidant that God forgave those things when I asked Him into my heart, soul, and mind as a believer. That weight of guilt, hurt, and angst that I felt for years is gone....poof! He sees me as the bright, capable, creative, and loved daughter...thank you God.
My challenge is to take the "flubber" that overwhelms me via social media and dump it. Isn't that something? And, it's hard because "flubber" keeps bouncing back on FB. You hear the "bing" and you look....and if you are like me your heart aches. You hear the tweet from Twitter and glance at it. We all do and we see something that doesn't reflect God's love for his people. C'mon, aren't we better at seeing love, care, and concern?
Since I'm a wordy gal here are some definitions:
Love: "an intense feeling of deep affection". It went onto to say that "babies fill their parents with intense feelings of love". Imagine that magnified & how God feels about each and every one of us? That means all of us with no exclusions.
Care: "the provision of what is necessary for the health, welfare, maintenance, and protection of someone or something". I think that God sees care as that. It is what He provides for each of irregardless of our present, past, or future....He cares.
Concern: "a matter of interest or importance to someone". The one that we can lay out all our concerns, cares, and love to is God. I sincerely believe he will take those and create something wonderfully unique in us that we can share to the world.
I've been praying this week how to talk about this with you. How not to seem angry, flippant, or brash. I asked God with my heart to let me not be reckless with my words so as to hurt someone. And, to let me be brave, speak up, and bounce the "flubber" in my life into the can, beat the lid in, and put it into a special waste container. I think that is how Professor Ned Brainard did it.
I'm encouraging you to take the "flubber" you see from social media and look away, don't be distracted by it. Instead, focus that time and give God the glory for what he's doing in your life. Then share the love & support that you've been given by God & be a gift to others. Help your neighbor roll in their trash cans, make dinner for a friend, or pray over someone. I know this season of my life those are the smalls that I'm going to do to glorify God. Imagine if we made a movement of "God Glory Flubber". Let's see what we can do!
Peace be with you-Sherry
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