Stones

My mom sent me a video of this guy talking about a painting his daughter made. It was of flowers growing out of the dirt. He said that the story behind it was “you threw dirt on me and God made flowers”

The reminds me of how sometimes as humans and Christians we are quick to make assumptions from surface level information.

For example, Imagine you are walking or driving down a road and you see this puppy on a tie out in the back yard. Your first thought might be “The poor dog, they leave him tied up all day” Now Imagine you asked the home owner about their dog and they tell you “He digs holes under the fence and gets out when we are at work. We are trying to keep him safe at home”

Your initial assumption was wrong.

Same for peoples lives.

I remember one time when Hudson and I went to target when he was in treatment. We went for groceries and I over hear a mom say to her child “Stay away from them you might catch what he has”

She made assumptions without knowing the full story, without knowing Hudson has cancer

And obviously cancer isn’t contagious like the flu 🙂

In John 8:7 Jesus says “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”

After this is versus 8 one by one they all went away

Durwin Kicker once told my dad when We found out I was pregnant with P “Everyone has sin, Her is just more visible”

I will end with this, Sometimes what you see from someone is surface level. There is always more to someone’s life than what you see.