I couldn't resist using this headline as I saw yesterday's -- God Is Just. But let me give you some background before you accurately accuse me of heresy! I was having a conversation with God a number of years ago...
[You can't have a conversation with God! You are mentally ill!]
...and I was basically telling him about the woman I wanted someday. One of her qualities, among many others, was that she wouldn't be fat. The underlying message was that I couldn't love a fat woman.
Then I "heard" God say, "I'm fat. Does that mean you don't love Me?"
I cried inside when I "heard" that. I'm not implying that it is a literal description of the fitness of the Creator, but it's easy to identify with the "created in His image" quality in each of us -- skinny, fat, slow, fast, pretty, "ugly," etc. And that God identifies with each of His children. If I didn't love a fat person, I didn't love Him. That's the lesson I learned: not to judge the outside appearance, but to love the person for who they really were. I wrote a song about this experience, but it never fleshed out in the context of my old band.
2 Thessalonians 2 has a great paragraph at its end:
"May our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, Who loves us and by His grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word."
This is an exciting week. In just a few short days I will see the fruit of much labor:
Pit Moves posters (came in on Tuesay. They're huge! 24" x 36" and cool.)
Heaven's Metal Fanzine #62 (a cool issue. Two mistakes, though, make me long for the next one already)
HM #118 (came in yesterday. Love it! Especially the centerspread on Thrice.)
HM stickers (came in yesterday. Little 1.25" round ones, like the HM button.)
HM #118 Hard Music Sampler CD (I should see about 5 copies this morning.)
Lust Control We Are Not Ashamed CD (I might see in another week or so...)
Sounds like a supersonic week at HM !!
Posted by: solomon at February 17, 2006 09:36 AM