What I want to say to the LGBT Community

It's all over the news, all over your social media, and its what everyone's talking about.

It's the headlines of every newspaper.

As of Friday June 26, 2015....

Supreme Court Ruling Makes Same-Sex Marriage a Right Nationwide

And all over my Facebook people are celebrating by changing their profile pictures to a rainbow color, and people are discriminating by posting horrible memes and religious people are saying how much of a sin it is, and how God will judge them later. Let me tell you something, I grew up LDS and I turned to a different religion for my own reasons, somewhere I felt more accepted, somewhere that the people didn't judge and the people accepted those who were broken. All I wanted to do was to increase my relationship with God, I didn't care about the religion it was, I just needed to have faith, and know God's love for me. As a very new Christian I have learned a very important thing, God's love is bigger, and God loves every single one of his children and it is not up to us to judge them.

If you read that you'll understand that it basically says "do not judge" because how are we to know what God says about a person, we are taught that God loves everyone.

Here's what I want to say to the LGBT Community

Congratulations! You have waited for this day & I know it's a day you will celebrate the rest of your life. I'm sorry that you are being judged by those who only see your choice of love as a sin, I'm sorry that you are being cast at with stones from people who are imperfect and broken. I'm sorry if you have grown up with a faith of God & knowing his love for you and have steered away because of what the people of the church have said to you, or thought of you and your choice. I'm not worried about the LGBT Community, I'm not worried about legalized same-sex marriages, I'm not worried about that, I'm worried that those who are part of the LGBT Community won't know the love that God has for them, won't believe that God still loves them, I'm worried that they will only believe that they are looked down and judged on by God, and that God will lose more followers because they chose to believe that God doesn't love them based on our society judging them. 

Christians, aren't we supposed to share our word, aren't we supposed to let others know the love that God has for them? Aren't we supposed to make heaven more crowded? How will God get through to his children to let them know that he still loves them if God's followers are judging them and telling them different. That's my worry, that these people in the LGBT Community will forget the love that God has for them, that they will lose faith, and that they will feel God looking down on them. I don't know what God thinks about this, and I don't know how God feels, but I do know that God's love for each and everyone of us is relentless. I might be a new Christian, I might be wavering in my faith and not praying each and every day, I might not be reading the bible from back to front and I definetely can't quote a scripture by memory yet but one thing I know, and I've always known is God's love for me and every single one of his children. Think about it, what if your child grew up and decided to choose homosexuality.... would you stop loving them? Would you judge them? Would you want them to know that they are sinning in the eyes of God, or would you want them to know of the love that God has for them? 

I pray for the LGBT community, I pray that they will only feel the love that God has for them, I pray for those who are judging to be reminded that God loves every single one of us and that nothing we can do will change his love for us. I've never met anyone who had God in their life that was a bad person, no matter what that person has done, no matter how that person is living, they have a relationship with God just like we do. Life is so hard, but God has tons of grace for you. Grace is what attracts us to god and it is what confirms his love for us over & over. I pray that you never forget that. 

I don't know where this came from, all I know that something hit me today and these words just poured out. I also know that it was right after I enjoyed my online podcast of Red Rocks Church and all I could think about were those who have forgotten the love that God has for them. God is bigger than all of this, and his love is relentless. I remember when I first started getting into the Christian church and starting to grow a relationship with God I started watching Red Rocks Church online. They did a series called "Off the Record" and they asked their church to write down subjects that are creating culture tension that they want to know what the bible says about it, or what God thinks about it. These were the ones they chose, these were the ones that were most asked about;

Pornography

Heaven

End of Times

Human Sexuality (homosexuality)

I remember thinking how bad I wanted to watch what the sermon said about Human Sexuality as a non-denominational Christian, but also so scared that I was just going to hear them judge and talk about how bad of a sin it is....but I didn't. I'm sharing this with you whether you want to watch it or not, it's such a good message. He starts to say that it's the topic of the hour in the American Church right now, and the church wrote in about this subject more than any other subject and he talks about how homosexuality relates to America and the church and what to do with it. He states in this message that the same measure of judgement we use on others is going to come right back at us. 

http://www.redrockschurch.com/media/watch-messages/human-sexuality/230/

Please don't let the world and the people make you feel that God loves you less.

I'll end this post with this scripture

1 Peter 4:17

For it is time for judgment to begin with God's household; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God?

It's okay to hit rock bottom

Let me start out this blog post by posting a familiar quote by Mr. J.K. Rowling

 

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life"

  Rock bottom is different for everyone especially if drugs and/or alcohol is involved in your life. For me, I have felt like I hit rock bottom a few times, but I have found that once you have hit rock bottom, you'll know it. You might hit it once, you might hit it a few times but it just means you can start over. Think of it as a fresh clean slate that God is giving you. I hit rock bottom in December of 2012 I started "dating" this guy in October, and it's not worth the long story so I'm going to keep it short I was going to move to his hometown, I quit my job, he came out to meet my parents around Christmas. Anyway, shit went down, I changed his flight & sent him home early and sat in my room, boxes packed, in tears. Whatever plan I had...wasn't going to work anymore. I had no where to go, I didn't have a job, and I had money to last me the rest of the month. On top of it all, my heart had been broken again.   I didn't want to, but I called my Mom in tears. She already knew what was going on from when it all went down, I tell her everything. Then she said these words....
"Honey, you are always welcome home, even if it's just to get you back on your feet you're always welcome here" Thanks Mom....but That small town was the last place I wanted to be, the last place that ever felt like "home"...  but I didn't have a choice The UHAUL was coming tomorrow, and the new girl was moving in the next day. So two days before Christmas I drove with a car full, following the Uhaul of the rest of my stuff and I was headed back "home." I don't really remember much of that drive, besides the fact that I never stopped crying. I cried myself to sleep that night, and the rest of the week. I barely ate, I got rid of my Facebook because I didn't want anyone to know I was back in town, and I tried my hardest to be a hermit. I still had no job... I felt worthless, I felt like I had failed and worst part was, I didn't have a plan. I was being so negative!   I want everyone to know that rock bottom is not a negative thing, you might feel like you've lost everything, and you can't get anything back...but try and be positive, turn to your family & friends but most of all...turn to god. I knew I needed God, I needed him way before this but I was finally ready to admit it So I started reading my bible, I started listening to Christian speakers, and I started listening to Christian Radio. I grew up LDS/Mormon, and for my own personal reasons I had to search outside of that religion. I wanted to. I believed in Christ, and I needed his guidance, right now there wasn't a right/wrong religion or church. The first day I started listening to the Christian radio they had a 30 day challenge, for a New Years Resolution. "Listen to this station for thirty days, and notice how much more positive you are, how much more you enjoy life, and how much happier you become." It was like a message to me through the radio, and I did it. 30 days of Christian radio I started to be more proactive looking for a job, I spent all my downtime with my family, I visited my Grandmother more, I hung out with friends from high-school & met new friends and slowly...I was rebuilding my life. I didn't have to have 100 friends to get me through it, I didn't have to be busy 100% of the time, I needed my alone time and I needed to find my passion in life, I needed to smile even when I didn't want to, and I needed to dig deep into my soul and find kidness to pour out to others even on my worst days. I focused on everyone else's happiness around me, and I soon became happier. I let go of all the bad people in my life, anyone who was causing drama, anxiety, bad feelings..etc I let it go, I cut the cord, I removed it from my life.   Rock bottom was not a negative part in my life, it was what I made it out to be. At first it was the worst thing I ever went through & all I saw was the negative parts of it. I didn't realize I was becoming a new me, a happier me, and through it all- I wasn't just growing closer to my family, or my friends, but I was finally growing closer to God. Rock bottom got me where I am now. I wasn't where I wanted to be, but I know now, I'm where I need to be