1. I REFUSE to LIKE Walmart. My heart falls and my gut twists into a knot everytime my mom, The Boss, sends me there. Walmart is a vicious, despicable conglomeration of predators. It preys on and victimizes its suppliers, its employees and its customers. It gouges its suppliers. It mistreats its employees. And it passes off poorly manufactured goods to its customers, like laptop computers with barely enough memory to run operating systems.
2. I have NO idea who or what Kim Kardashian is or even if she has any socially redeeming value, which I doubt, based on the circumstances under which I hear her name in popular media (that is, if media has any veracity, which, again, is doubtful), nor do I care to know.
3. Jesus, the Christ is my Lord and Savior, of Whom I am not ashamed. Still, I doubt that in the flesh he was the handsome dark-haired, blue-eyed hunk as he has been portrayed. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. (Isaiah 53:2).
4. I pray daily, throughout the day, and am uttering one now, asking God the Father to still the hands of folks who think it their mission to shove their beliefs, regardless of the issue, down my throat, by telling me what to LIKE and what to SHARE, and the contingent circumstances upon which I am to do so.
5. Despite my beliefs and my opinions, they will be mine even if they are not yours. I may or may not agree with you, but I respect your right to think/believe as you deem appropriate, even if contrary to what I think/believe. Please allow me the same consideration. Of course, if you don't that's okay, too. You will be ignored. And you will probably unfriend me. Cool.
6. I do not believe that SHARING or FORWARDING or LIKING anything in particular, for any specific number of times with a specific number of people, will put me in better stead with the Almighty God. It rains on the just and the unjust, and we are all some of both.
7. God is not a genie. You don't get three wishes; you get to live your life based on the choices you made, as do I. Sometimes He will show you an extra measure of unmerited favor -- perhaps you call it grace, or sometimes you will forego the consequences of your actions -- perhaps you call that mercy; that doesn't make you any more highly favored as the next person; we all get that, to some degree, from time to time.
8. I do not care to see intimate moments of anyone on my Facebook page, whether male/female, male/male, or female/female, or, God forbid, male/other or female/other, where other is something in lieu of homo sapien.
9. I do not care to see pictures of barely dressed people. I don't know which is worse, a picture posted to laugh at or ridicule, or a picture posted to tantalize. Neither are appealing. Both are offensive. This being said, I am not a prude; there is simply a time and place for everything.
10. My "church" clothes are always ready. I get up on Sunday morning, do the necessary daily grooming, go to my closet and pull out something neatly pressed and clean, generally a dress shirt or twin set and a pair of trousers, occasionally a suit, and appropriate accessories. I still have to watch those dirty stains that appear on my heart, however.
Looking forward to "friending" new folks as my current roll declines, and
Finally, brethren, Be perfect, be of good comfort,
be of one mind, live in peace;
and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
II Corinthians 13:11 (KJV)
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