People of Walmart!!!

So, last night as I was saying good night to the world I checked in on FB one last time before signing off. A friend asked me if I had ever seen the website people of Walmart.com. Now, before you type that little address into your browser I need to warn you. There are some crazy whackadoos out there. Some are angry, some are just sad, some seem to be way too attached to their pets. There are hundreds of different photographs taken of patrons of different Walmarts in their natural state. As I was looking through the different shots simultaneously lowering my ability to be shocked and hoping I didn't turn up on the next shot I was thinking as I sometimes do.

These people are unlike anything I have ever seen in public. Their appearance is shocking, appauling, laughable. It is almost as if they are clueless to any reality around them. I then realized that that is my opinion. They may be the king of their world. It may be perfectly normal to have hair that is matted into a column that drags behind you like a mummy. To them it might be okay to show your tooshie to the general public just because you can. A bra on a man? Sure why not he likes his girls to be supported too. My point is this world is HUGE! There are Billions of people on this planet and not all of them think the way I do. They don't understand that Chicken is Fried, Pie is apple except at Thanksgiving and if you are going to do anything with chocolate it had better be sweet.

The part that blows my mind is that God loves ALL OF US!!! You heard me...ALL OF US! He loves us even if we don't acknowledge him. He loves us no matter how weird we act or look. He loves us because we are his whether we like it or not. The other night at soccer practice my daughter was doing something I had asked her not to do. I had called her to me and she knew full well why so she decided to act like she couldn't hear me. It was comical really I could hear her talking to herself and trying not to look my way. She knew that there was a reality just around the bend and she was doing her best to ignore it. I think that whether people are Christian or not they know right from wrong. They can sense a higher power. They feel him standing there. Now, he is much more subtle than I am I marched right into her face and explained to her that she was in big trouble and she needed to march herself back to the van and await punishment. God isn't going to do that. He's better than I am. He will gently remind you and patiently wait for you, but there is a time limit. You have to realize that God is Love and then turn around and tell others.

Christians are called to spread the word to all of God's people. It isn't going to be easy. They are not all like us. They don't speak our language. They don't root for the same team or even drive on the same side of the road. Their way of thinking will be completely foreign to you. Hold tight to the Word of God and spread his light so that all people will come to know him and love him as you do. There are people that have never even heard about Jesus. They know he is there. They can feel him. They sense his power. They are not necessarily in Africa or in some desolate part of the world. There are people very close to you that need to hear about Jesus. Go to Walmart for heaven's sake those people are CRAZY!!!!