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What do we do when someone's foundational beliefs are causing them to attack us? What is there to be done when there is something fundamentally different? When there is an ideological divide?

Justin is faithful. He has made it well known that his belief in God is a fundamental part of his path and his marriage. For that, he is commended.

Sometimes it's hard to for the faithful. They see with clarity the evil in the world. But when they strive to remove or correct it, there is some misinterpretation...

I don't deny that I have my own misunderstandings, and with regularity I must reflect on what something actually means.

When we're called to be servants of God, I think we must take upon ourselves a very serious responsibility. We must be the change... What do we seek in life? Can we effect change?

But sometimes the misunderstandings led us to attempt to effect change in others.

I remember when I was selling drugs, I had lots of LSD, mushrooms, etc... I remember one time I took a designer hallucinogen, and I was trippin'. And I was thinking about how to change the architecture of other people's minds. If only they could see...

Well, that was problematic. I ended scrawling out a pretty emotionally provocative message in toothpaste on my parents' bathroom mirror. To express my love? To make a change in my own self and behavior? It makes me think of bath salts, which I haven't done but most of us have heard stories... People wind up naked, right?

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I love you, my devout brothers. And sisters (stay away, I'm getting married). The difficulty though is when we seek to change each other.

As I've grown, I've learned that only I can be the change I seek, and that when I seek to change others I'm lost.

Some may remember my post in "Methadone Soon" or something... Starting Methadone Program Soon

This is what I said, and it's what I'm trying to say here again...: