Thinking on a Roof

Today was a really good day. For the first time in a month I really felt like I was relaxing. I haven’t spent my free time without thinking about camp and when I wasn’t it was because I was somewhere else like Bigstone or Regina with friends, that’s not the times when I really relax. Anyways, today was Saturday and because camp stuff is under control, I found myself on a roof watching cars running in each other and making much noise. Today in Hepburn they had this event, I don’t know how they call it but a bunch of cars in a circle just run into each other for fun, the last car still running at the end is the one winning. I think I found the best spot, but don’t tell anybody. The event took place right in front of Bethany campus. So I went into the guys’ dorm (no worries there’s no guys living there at this time of the year) and I went on the roof of the dorm and walked all the way to the other side where I sat down. I could see everything, the crowd, the cars, the fire fighters very well. It was neat to be sitting there, but I did not enjoy the sight too much. Cars bumping in each other, setting on fire sometimes, car pieces ejected in the air, strong noise. I just felt like … that’s pointless.

It made me think about something though. These drivers’ purpose was to destroy everybody else around (and I’m sure they wanted to have fun too). But as I was watching them I just thought that the idea was stupid.
Sometimes we act the way these drivers do. We pick on everyone around us (yes on our brothers and sisters in Christ) and we are quick to find any black spot in them. We might not know it or realize it, but basically we like putting people down so we look better than them. It’s not just “fun” to talk about “this person who did this and that” it makes us feel good about ourselves. But really, as these cars running into each other, we are as stupid when we pick on people. That’s the same thing, we are destroying (not cars but) relationships, people’s reputations and other people’s fragile opinion of them.

When people around me say bad things about others, my perception of them (if I don’t know them well enough) changes for the bad. I believe that this is really unfortunate, it’s bad. We have to be careful when we talk about others because it doesn’t affect only ourselves (which is bad enough, we sin) but it affects people who are listening. They might grow bitter against these people or against you (that’s probably the way I’d be)! Because they’d be sick of your negative talk.

Anyways. Let us enjoy our today and be pleasant in the way we speak of others. Amen.

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* This month’s monies will actually be joined with July’s, at the end of July. Thank you for considering helping our brothers and sisters out there and doing something about it somehow by giving or prayer, or whatever.

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