For the People

Today was an interesting day I guess. I didn't get to go watch movies or go biking but I was able to go the a cemetery. We went to visit my cousins grandpa. Even though I don't remember him that well and we weren't that close he was somewhat influential in my life. I remember him talking to me and my cousin and this was probably the only memory that I had of him. We were about to eat a meal and my cousin being catholic and me being protestant obviously had different ways of praying before a meal, but he said that even though we have different ways of doing things we are still praying to the same God. And the reason I say that it was a lasting affect on my life is because he gave me a perspective on life that made me see things with more wisdom. Some people I know who are CRC seem to have grudges or a negative connotation about catholics or different denominations. What my cousins grandpa was saying was that we are all under one God and this one love that rules over all. 1st Corinthians 5 talks about how we sometimes look at the things that don't matter rather than really seeing what was important (... its Jesus btw). And so as I was sitting at his grave with my cousin I had a lot of time to just think about life and death in general. I don't really know if people do this but I think about death a lot and also about other peoples salvation and whether they had it or not. Even though I know you never know if someone is saved I think I can say that this man was saved. Just his presence and the way that he lived his life made me see so much of Jesus in him. I catch myself thinking badly of other denominations or other churches sometimes and I realize that I shouldn't really care about the small details and just focus on what really matters, and that is knowing that the person is saved (like I knew my cousins grandpa was saved). So in conclusion I want to try to encourage people to focus on the things that really matter in life... like the persons life and not small stupid things. To finish off this blog I will put up this song that I listen to when I think about death or life. And like this song says even though everyone has someone in their life who dies, because of their affect on our lives they will always be living in us.