The Plumbline

Love the Lord and hate evil! God protects his loyal people and rescues them from violence. If you obey and do right, a light will show you the way and fill you with happiness. You are the Lord’s people! So celebrate and praise the only God. (Psalm 97:10-12) In all our struggling to do as this says, we find ourselves challenged with prejudices galore, fears of things which don't exactly "fit" our definition of "normal", and just plain silly misconceptions.  Fear makes us do really weird things and isolates those who are struggling. We need to move past the fear and let God guide our actions. We have to move past some of our prejudged ideas about others. It may not be the things we know which hurt us and others, but the things we don't know but have come to accept as "truth", even when it isn't truth at all. Sometimes we allow the "hype" about the issue or the person to cloud our own judgment and an even more dangerous thing happens - ...