“Dear God, Please Eff Up the Lives of Everyone I Pray Against…Signed, Your Humble Servant”

I just love when people say that they are religious — and then call upon the name of God to dispense vengeance on their perceived naysayers. Then they proceed to conduct themselves in a fashion that is spiteful and manipulative and make feeble attempts to wreak havoc on people’s lives. Where does God enter into that equation? The God I know is one of love and brotherhood. Are they worshipping a different entity than I bow to?

I also recently saw a post about how someone was praising the Lord and announcing how God guides their life and will make them a winner…and in the very next post, shared something absolutely pornographic and sick referring to their sexual prowess. I’m confused. So much for “The body is a temple.”

Many of you don’t know that I used to be married to someone that had “Reverend” in his title. Yep, I was a minister’s wife. This person abandoned me when I became ill and engaged in some of the most perverse acts — yet was at church every Sunday all caught up in “the spirit”.

I have given up on a formal church. I believe “church” is wherever “two or more gather in His name”. I don’t need to go to a human to confess, but cut out the “middleman” and go directly to The Lord. I have found organized churches to contain some of the most judgemental, small-minded, hypocritical peeps who elevate themselves to a lofty position just so that they can look down on others. And don’t even get me started on the money and politics that often are mashed in with the equation. I don’t claim to know the mind of God, but I can’t help but wonder if this was HIS plan regarding worship?

No, I don’t have the answers and won’t until I meet HIM. But I do know what my Bible says. I learned a couple of things as a minister’s wife. I prefer to adhere to a message of love and inclusion. Who the hell am I to ask a God of love to “deal” with people or as I lovingly refer to it “pray AGAINST them”? That is pitiful and truly sacrilegious in every sense of the word. No, I stay in my lane in my WALK and know that there is a power greater than I that is in control…HE’S GOT THIS!!!!!