It's not a disease! It's a SIN!

From my Real Estate Review CD-ROM -

10. Which of the following is a protected person under the 1988 Fair Housing Law as amended? 

Answer: B - An alcoholic
Explanation: Alcoholism is a disease and fits within the physical and mental handicap provision. A current drug user is not protected, although a reformed drug addict would be protected.

WUUUUUUHT?!?!?!?
Your own explanation states that drug addicts can be reformed... it is the CHOICE of "patient" to be in the state he or she is in!  It is NOT a disease! Sure, it'll handicap your facilities when you're under its influence, but that does NOT mean you've contracted a disease! Being diseased (to an extent) is NOT a choice! You can cause yourself to be sick, but that's different from choosing that state of mental/physical incapacity. Alcoholism is a SIN.

I don't know if people hear themselves when they say those kinds of things...

Yeah... that's it. :-/

~Mizzoria

No condemnation

Alright... I'm hopefully back to blogging here more often... after not having done so for what? Almost 9 months?  I have an evil grin on my face for those who care.

Thanks, Es, for keeping this place alive! :-)

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Romans 8:1-2 (NASB)Therefore, no condemnation exists for those in Christ Jesus, because the Spirit's law of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

I was JUST thinking about how I've changed so much this past year.
How my thinking has changed...
How my attitude towards life has loosened...
in that I just don't care that much anymore.

Or maybe I do?
And I'm just trying to avoid conflict?

But is that conflict really conflict?
Am I perhaps actually scared to be rejected or judged?

Silly me. I can only be judged. NOT condemned!

Why? I'm set free! There's no condemnation in Him.
I should NOT care about what people see me as.

I laugh when others are bound to live by others' standards of style and fashion, but I don't realize that I myself am always trying to please everyone at the same time, or keep everyone happy.
What an ego...

So, I can't please men, but I can please God.
I should be firm in my beliefs and not worry about "offending people" or getting on the politically incorrect side of arguments.

Who cares? And so what?

~Mizzoria

We're just doing it for God's glory...

Ok, that ^^[the title of this post]^^ is the lamest excuse of all time for the mediocre works of Christians.
Colossians 3:23 CLEARLY states that we are to do our BEST for God and not for people.

How many times have I heard people practice for some performance in Christian settings/circles
and they don't sit down and actually work the long, long, long hours
to make it beautiful, heartfelt, well-done, and obvious that the performers had tried hard to honor their God.

It's because you're doing it for God that you MUST make it perfect,
or at least to the best of your ability.
Don't give up,
allow mistakes unrectified,
and just leave it "at that"
saying, "It's ok [if we stink],
because we're doing it for God and His glory and not for ourselves."

UUGGHH, it makes me feel so frustrated when people do that.
I mean, go ahead,
admit you're tired and you're not doing the best you should,
but for the love of all that is good,
DO NOT USE THAT EXCUSE!

Dude!  People at the bottom or in the audience could care less if you messed up here and there
(assuming this is a true Christian audience),
but if your sloppy presentation is due to your slacking off
when you feel bored or tired or hopeless,
don't slip into the lie that since your apathy won't judged by Christians, you're off the hook.

Doing a lousy job does NOT honor God, 

whether the crowd pays you or not.

Ok, so maybe you as leader or even a participant didn't manage your time well this time,
and you were already working into the wee hours of the morning,
and it just didn't work out
(which I doubt if your heart was truly right that God would let such hard work go to waste like that),
but if you continue to mismanage your time
in service to God or anything really
(whether other people can see it or not),
you've either got too much on your plate
(but everybody says, if you need to get something done, give it to a busy person!)
OR some serious attitude issues.

In either case, you need to fix the situation.   By the way, I'm ranting at the latter.

Mizzoria~

Pronuciation

Who reads 

HAPHAZARDLY 

as

hap-ha-zerd-lee?

Ahhh,
but you are wrong!
Of course,
it's

ha-fa-zard-lee!

Don't you know "p" and "h" together 

make the "f" sound?!

Goodness, 

people these days.


I'm just joking, but honestly, the English language is quite upsetting.

Mizzoria~

Surnames

To spellcheckers:

Please. stop red-underlining my last name! 

I KNOW how to spell it! 

For goodness' sake, it's only 4 letters long...

Thank you. 

Mizzoria~