bmv + kingdom of heaven

so, i love when real life sparks some sort of connection to jesus and the way he sees things. it happens quite often, if you're open to it. today, i was sitting in the bmv to get some plates and temps for my scooter. i started the process in november, but then it got cold so i parked it in the garage and decided to wait. nobody really likes going to the bmv, come on. maybe an adventure for a senior citizen, a good reason to get out of the house, but the most of us dread it wholly.

well, i was sitting there over a span of two hours and thinking about how ugly of a process it is, yet how beautiful it is. everybody is equal. i was surrounded by smelly people, beautiful people, foreign people, 'merican people, etc.

everybody gets a number, everybody is placed in a line. no socioeconomic plusses or minuses will set them back or benefit them in anyway.

we love things to be fair, hypothetically speaking, but when it comes down to it, it's not natural for us (who have lots and lots and lots more than others) to value equality.

i want to see everybody like jesus sees them. i'm guilty of snap judgments and judgments in general. as much as i desire to be someone that doesn't have prejudices or egocentrism, i do.

i'm not a very organized person, when it comes to reading the bible, i tend to go for a pocket sized copy of the message version and flip it open and read something on that page (unless i'm not in the mood for that, then i flip it open to a different spot and try again) now, i know sometimes a verse without context can be kind of crazy, but here's what i just flipped open to, i like it:

So clean house! Make a clean sweep of malice and pretense, envy and harmful talk. You've had a taste of God. Now, like infants at the breast, drink deep of God's pure kindness. Then you'll grow up mature and whole in God. [ 1 peter 2:1]