Loving with conditions.

Have you ever found yourself at a grocery store looking for something that was canned, and you pushed aside the can with a dent in it and picked up the more "perfect" looking can? I have. 

But.... why?

What's so different about the can you pushed aside? It has dents.... the label may be ripped... but are the insides contaminated or anything? ....No. 

The worlds a messed up place, and for many reasons.... but one is being that nobody loves unconditionally.... they love with conditions. Like the can, people don't choose to be friends with the people who appear to have the "dents" or differences in them. Should a girl who wears heavy black makeup and clothes be judged as a bad person because of what she looks like? Or the girl with the hole in her sweat pants... is it right for us to judge her? 

It's like a story in the Bible that i was just talking about with Ian last night. In the bible there was a women who was being accused of being basically a tramp. Men from the city were planning on stoning her to death, and Jesus intervened. He said "Those whom do not hold sin in their heart may throw the first stone" All the men dropped their stones. Each and everyone of them had sinned, so why did it give them a right to judge this women if her sin was no smaller nor any greater than theirs. After the men walked away, Jesus told the women to go on with her life, but to sin no more. 

I love that story, but wish that life could be more similar to the way Jesus had it planned... where instead of loving with conditions and limits, people would love people for themselves and their character, morals and personality. 

In our own way, we're all the cans with the dents that are left up on the shelf. Nobodys life is easy nor perfect.  So why judge someone when they could be one of the greatest people you've ever met:)