Stream of Consciousness 11

Lately I've had writer's block. So I 'm writing this in hopes that I can break through it....
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First of all: grace. Look, you aren't perfect. Nobody is perfect. This is a fact of life and everybody should know this. Whether you believe people are basically good or not (spoiler alert: we are not basically good) everyone messes up.
What gives you the right to judge other people then? If somebody messes up, there is absolutely no reason for you to reject them or not love them anymore. And that's that.
Say someone gets pregnant out of wedlock. Why lose respect for her? Why reject her? You've messed up just as much as she has, her consequences are just more obvious than yours.
Really, just don't be a jerk. That's all I'm saying.
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On a happier note, you ever notice how things aren't as bad as they could be when you have something to look forward to? "Well this day sucked, but at least tomorrow I get to...." And then, as Christians we can heaven to look forward to. We have this hope. It's hard to hold onto this hope when life sucks, but you have to because it's the only way you're going to get through it.
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I really miss Summit but I love thinking about the stuff that I learned and applying it to real life. And there's all these books that I got that I get to read....
And I get to go work at Camp Id-Ra-Ha-Je soon and I'm also super excited about that. But it's also really nerve wracking because of the impact I have the opportunity to make. I want so badly to make a good one but I'm afraid that I'll mess up and leave a bad one. And that's what terrifies me.....
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So apparently there was this Facebook outage that caused worldwide panic. That, my friend, is sad. We are WAY to dependent on social networking now....
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So you know there was that shooting at Seattle Pacific University? I don't know if you've been following that story but Jon Meis, the guy who was able to subdue the shooter, has been getting a lot of attention for what he did. All these people sent him money for his wedding and honeymoon and he said that he wants anymore money they want to be send to be given to the victims. But what I think is really cool is that he said "When I came face to fact with the attacker, God gave me the eyes to see that he was not a faceless monster, but a very sad and troubled young man" (World Magazine, June 28, 2014. Page 16). What an awesome witness for God!
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I suppose that's all I have to say. Hopefully my writer's block is gone....

Much love,
Amanda Page

The Double Standards of Girl-Kind

So I was going to think of some witty title but then I got too lazy so you get a nice title that specifically explains the subject of my blog post. How boring is that?
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I went to a worldview camp called Summit up in Manitou Springs. That's a whole different post. But at Summit we talked a lot about masculinity and femininity. Also, the girls in my class bought this men's panel. So some of the guy staff members served us lemonade and cream puffs and answered some of our questions and oh my goodness it was adorable. In this men's panel and the masculinity/femininity discussion a few points came up frequently. One of them, the one I want to talk about in this post, is the way that girls disrespect guys.

Here's a picture of the Men's Panel in case you cared.....

Now the thought had crossed my mind a few times the past couple years but I'm ashamed to say I never really considered how I disrespect the guys in my life. When I was forced to think about it I found that guys are very hurt by-wait for it- the same things that girls get hurt by. One thing that constantly came up in the discussion was when girls sit around and talk about how attractive such and such celebrity is. It's like we forget that guy celebs are photoshopped and unrealistic just like girls are. Girls get super bothered when guys sit around and talk about Selena Gomez or something but then we sit around them and swoon over whatever guy in whatever movie we just saw. BUT THEN WE EXPECT GUYS TO RESPECT US. WE DON'T RESPECT THEM. WHY SHOULD THEY RESPECT US? I mean not all girls are bothered by this, so I'm sure not all guys are. But it's still really rude to do and I'm sorry if I've ever done that to you.....

Short post this time but I feel like there's nothing left to be said and anything else would just be excess ramblings.
So here's my concluding question(s) that no one ever answers even though I KNOW that people read this blog and have thoughts:
If you're a guy, is there a way that we as girls disrespect you or something that girls do that belittles you or something like that? Or does this even bother you at all?
If you're a girl, what do you think about this?

Much love,
Amanda <3