It's just amazing to me....I just marvel at the human race.....how two people who have been friends for years can suddenly have one turn on the other one....many times on a dime with no warning and many times with no apparent cause....it just baffles me.....the unkind, uncaring, depraved state of people......I've had several in my life that I've run across that have been that way...as an example: a very dear friend of mine Callie Odom (formerly Nowlin) just suddenly, for no apparent reason, decided to disappear, and abandon our friendship. I say "abandon" because when she reappeared again, her actions showed she wanted nothing more do to with our friendship. No explanation...no opportunity for me to know what happened and to ask forgiveness for anything I had done. We had been very close...communicating many times a week...praying for each other...everything good....She converted to Catholicism and then suddenly...friendship gone! I would never say anything derogatory about Catholicism, however, her actions do certainly seem to show her now more caught up with religion than relationship with God....Yet, after converting to Catholicism, she continues almost daily to quote the saints....never bothering to actually put into practice the very things she is quoting....scriptures such as:
"If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen." (I John 4:20).....or, "But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves." (James 1:22), and "Let love be without hypocrisy..." (Romans 12:9)
I continue to pray for her daily...that God will speak to her heart and show her just what it means to be a "saint"...the very thing she says she is striving for...
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