Your Life

The other day, I was taking my kids to school in the morning. In front of us was a car and in front of that car there was a school bus. The school bus makes a stop in an entrance street to pick up kids. In that entrance there were a car that was dropping off kids to get up in the bus. When the school bus left, the car that drops off kids was waiting for someone give pass so she can entrance to the road. There was a long line of car since we all were waiting for the kids to get in the school bus. The car in front of me passes. I stop and give her pass. My youngest son says “hey! Why you let her pass mami?” I tell him that if I were she I would like someone let me pass. Then he replies, “but the car in the front don’t let her pass why you let her pass?” I explain my son that not because the car in the front do not let her pass means that I should not let her pass. I repeat to him. You should treat other as you like others treat you. If you would like someone give you pass you have to give pass.

Some people think that whatever other people do is what they should do.  Other people think; why I should do “X” or “Y” thing if other people do not do it? Another bunch of people think, I will not do “X” or “Y” thing because other people said “X” or “Y” thing but do the opposite of what they said. Lets put to this tongue twister some examples. The first example, if I see my co-workers that take longer time for lunch and nobody said anything to them, I can do it too. The second example, I do not help my neighbor because they said that this is a nice community where we care about everybody, but in here nobody helps each other. The third example, why I should go to church if the people that go to church still doing bad thing when they get out of church, even the pastors!

We go through life checking other people business. We like to imitate what they have or do. We should no live or judge other people actions, we should just check all the time what we do and what we don’t. We should judge good and bad actions that we do. Our relationship with God is unique, why I have to check what my neighbor is doing?  When we are checking other people lives, we are loosing our life trying to live someone else life. We have to stop looking at others and start looking at us. What good I have done today? What bad thing I did today that needs to be fixed?

1 Thessalonians 4:9-12

⁹ You don’t need us to write about loving your brothers and sisters because God has already taught you to love each other. ¹⁰ In fact, you are doing loving deeds for all the brothers and sisters throughout Macedonia. Now we encourage you, brothers and sisters, to do so even more. ¹¹ Aim to live quietly, mind your own business, and earn your own living, just as I told you. ¹² That way you’ll behave appropriately toward outsiders, and you won’t be in need.

Big Hug,

MRM