Thoughts.

Experience is what shapes our lives. My experiences aren't the same as your experiences and vice versa. Someone can't say "I've had it worse than you have" because maybe that's true within their own life- but it isn't comparable. How could someone know that anyhow? Nobody can truly know what goes on in someone else's head. Truly. The only person (being, if you will) is God. He's the only one who can know our hearts and our minds.
Does that scare you? Does it scare you that He knows what we actually think?
It does me sometimes. I know that I serve a merciful God and He understands, but I still know that I fall short at times.

Lately I've been trying to show the love of Christ. I've been slow to respond, quick to understand. I've also allowed more interruptions. My Ministry Professor was talking about how some of the greatest opportunities for ministry come from interruptions.
Example: The other day I was just about to climb up into my bed for an hour nap but a girl on my floor walks in. I sat and talked to her about what was going on. She left- another girl walks in. I sat and talked to her as well. Long story short- I didn't get to take my nap but I did get to invest time in people.
I think this is what God calls us to do. Invest in people. Love people. Who cares what they are getting into- Love them all the same. Believe me, I'm trying really hard to do this because loving people all the time isn't quite that easy.
Misunderstandings make me angry.
People ranting at me on Facebook makes me angry.
Injustice makes me angry.
Disrespect makes me angry.

I've come to realize that I don't know ANYTHING about what is going on in someone's life to make them this way. So, I take deep breaths, and love.
Christ loved the sinner, the orphan, the poor, the stranger, the alien, the widow, the adulterer and the sinner.
This is our job as well.