Recent headlines...

I saw this story on my Facebook feed the other day and cried ugly tears reading it. It was so sad yet so beautiful:

http://www.today.com/news/moms-memory-lives-sweet-dad-daughter-photos-2D11741832

I saw this story the other day and immediately wanted to help. I wasn't alone. THERE ARE STILL GOOD PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. And the story had a happy ending. You can enjoy it here:

http://dailynightly.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/18/21955710-donations-allow-blind-man-to-keep-the-dog-that-saved-him?lite

Confession: I've never seen Duck Dynasty. Am I still an American citizen? Whew. OK. So far my passport hasn't been revoked. I was so clueless about this show that I bought a DD product as a gift without knowing it (and returned it yesterday because I didn't want to be part of this fiasco). I don't watch much television. I have better things to do, but a ton of my Facebook friends do and my "newsfeed" exploded with calls to boycott A&E for censoring someone on this show. There were 27 posts about this issue on my feed yesterday. 27. This was my response post to Facebook:

When people become outraged about issues with a television show (A TELEVISION SHOW!!!!!) I cannot help but think about how much energy they could be spending on really important issues that should upset them infinitely more. (No, I'm not talking about Tim Tebow not being in the NFL this year. I'd argue it is more of an outrage, but that's just me! HA!) I'm talking REAL issues, people. Wake up and get riled up about real injustices and real issues. UGH. 

Also, don't get all grumpy about Christians being persecuted and then become jerks. Does that endear Jesus to anyone? Did He teach being nasty to our neighbors? I don't remember ever reading that. End of rant.

As of press time, 17 people have "liked" my status and 5 have commented. Two of those people are missionaries. Three of them are agnostic.  Seven of them are people I consider strong Christians. The others aren't close enough to me for me to know their core beliefs and I'm OK with that. The point is by being so divided in how we act as Christians...the whole agree with us and let us speak or we will boycott you mentality...we're alienating the very people Jesus told us to love. Quit that. A friend of mine shared this article which was everything I wanted to say and didn't. It is also far more well-written than my little blog. Fine! The author is just better than me! I've included a link to his article below so that you can see what I mean and then decide that you'd rather read his work than the little Petefish Post (which is totally understandable expect he won't have cute photos of MacKenzie...just sayin'):

http://matthewpaulturner.com/2013/12/19/hey-church-can-we-all-just-calm-the-duck-down/

Can great writing really top photos of a cute puppy?! ;)