A New Perspective

Before I start, for those of you who don't know what DOMA is, DOMA The Defense of Marriage Act that was put into place September 21, 1996. It is a United States federal law that allows states to refuse to recognize same sex marriages performed under the laws of other states. It also effected same-sex married couples from being recognized as 'spouses', even or receiving federal marriage benefits.

A few days ago DOMA was deemed unconstitutional by the supreme court and is now no longer in effect. The reactions to this are both negative and positive, more negative then positive. I believe that the supreme court made the right decision on taking the law out because who are we to judge others on who they are or what they do with their life; love is love no matter whether it be with a male or a female. Just because a girl may like a girl or a boy may like a boy, doesn't make it any wrong than a male liking a female or a female liking a male. 

We are taught in school and in our life overall since a young age to never judge someone because we don't know their story or have lived their life or think the way they do. Now all most people do is judge based on someone's sexual orientation, that just isn't right what if it was wrong to be straight and being gay was the norm? What would you do then?

 Take a look at this video I found on "What if Gay was Straight and Straight was Gay" it may open your eyes on a different perspective.

 

Never judge someone because of what sex they choose to love. Love is Love. We all have the right to Love whoever we choose whether it be male or female.

 

As 1 Thessalonians 4:9 says "But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

Biggest Fear

Today has been a pretty gloomy day filled with Fear,  rain, more rain, and lots of lighting and thunder......oh and 4 Flash Flood Warnings. I am probably worse than my dogs when it comes to thunder because I absolutely Hate thunder. Thunder is my biggest fear, but I never really understood why it scared me so much. It scares me to the point where my heart starts beating faster and I just want to crawl in a hole. Since I can't crawl in a hole, I put my headphones on and blast my music, I also have my thunder buddy who, although may be miles away, keeps my occupied all day and make sure I am okay.

My fear isn't scary to most people, but that's a part of what makes us different we all fear different things, or people, or even thoughts. Some of us may fear multiple things, some may fear nothing, and some of us fear things that we didn't really realize that we were scared of. For example, I never knew I was scared of the dark until I started waking up at 2am every night in dead silence thinking someone was watching me....yes I know, creepy right. Fears are just all in our head and the more we think about them the more we fear them, so as for me I try to ignore the thunder and try not to think about scary things when I wake up at 2am.

Now one fear that most people wont admit to having is Love or the idea of Falling in Love; I am not afraid to admit that I was once one of the people who feared love. Not like the love a mother has for her child or the love you have for a certain food, the love that makes you feel butterflies in your stomach and makes you lose your train of thought and keeps you up at night. I was afraid that I would never get that feeling, after so many heartbreaks thinking it was "love" some just give up on love including. The key is you can't give up on love or go searching for it, it just comes out of nowhere and hits you right in your face when you aren't looking. You may not realize it at first but when the moment is just right you will realize you are in love and can no long run from it. Now me, I had that perfect moment where he was inches from my face just staring down at me....I was in Love. I tried my best to run away from it because what if he wasn't ready to catch me. Love wasn't going to let me get away because 7 months later he caught me <3 and had no intentions of letting me go.

Fears can get the best of us sometimes no matter how big or how small they may be, but we can't let them take over our lives. We have to find ways to overcome them and worry about better important things; all it takes is just one step at a time. You may not overcome all of your fears, but at least you know you fear less and focus more on the path God is leading you through.


As Isaiah 41:10 states "Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help the; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness "

The Start

 

Everyone goes through many ups and many downs throughout their life, and each one of those moments make them even stronger and wiser than they were before. Just because you had one bad day, a heartbreak or two, made a mistake, made the wrong choice, or even just felt like you couldn't take it anymore, doesn't mean that your life sucks. There are many amazing moments that you will have that will make the bad moments seems as though they are just minor little details of your own journey through life. As one quote or cliché states "nobody's perfect" so don't try to make your life perfect, God puts you in situations because he knows you know how to handle them, he puts people in your life for certain reasons (whether it be to make you learn or lesson or because you need a friend, or they may turn out to be the love of your life), and he make sure he guides you in the right direction.

For those of you that know me, I really didn't think this this way months ago; it takes certain people that come into your life, or certain situations that help you realize what I realized...or that one person who says they really care and means it no matter what.

My name is Christina Roman and this my Journey through Life.

(This song is called "Here" by Rascal Flatts, it is what inspired my first post and reminds me of a certain someone...so give it a listen)

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