Monday, July 10, 2006

What makes you important? Is it your job? Is it your car? Is it your super fabulous ______?
Does your little important thing, make you better 'cause you have your little thing and other people do not?

I personally think those things don't matter a rip. I was watching COPS the other day, and there was this couple. They were homeless living in the back of a U-Haul. The cop said he thought it was great how they were always so happy. He said he had seen them many times before but they were always just happy.

I am on this tangent, because I think maybe some people look down on other people because they see them in a different class. In Rochester there are a couple different class people. (You will need to do some googling to figure out this next part. I am sure you will find what I am referring to.) There are the Large Hospital Complex doctors and the Rather Important Computer Company engineers. Then there is this odd other class. It includes all the people in basically every other job in Rochester. Some people may say now wait a minute. There are lots of other people at Large Hospital Complex and Rather Important Computer Company. That is correct, but they are not the same. I work for a major telecommunications company, I am a customer care representative. I am not Dick Notebeart. I do not have a giant house or any reason to think I am any better than any one else I know.

This whole tangent really comes back to this: Do you think anyone you know is not worth your time? Think about it this way. If Jesus hung out with a hooker, are you too good to hang out with a hooker? Now this maybe a little extreme for some people so we will use a real example. Let's dust off that old Bible and go to John 4:1-42. Read that little encounter. Jesus was perfection. He was the only truly Holy Man to walk this earth. Yet sometimes we think we are perfect. We walk around saying, "I work at Large Hospital Complex and I think I should only talk to other Large Hospital Complex people because they are my people." What a sad broken life you will have. The joy of having friendships and being a Christ follower is the other types of people you end up walking with. Granted it is not always easy, but the reward is awesome!