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Dear God

Are You Sure You Don't Mess Up?

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I am certain that the title and subtitle of this article is going to get some of my fellow Christians and Jesus preaching religious nut associates, co-workers and mostly former friends in an uproar. And that's fine. Because this is the truth. The way. The light. From my heart. From my soul. And the way that I feel.

Hunter Hayes recently wrote a song titled, "Dear God" and part of the song asks, "Are you sure you don't mess up?" and I'd like to ask the same question. Every single day of my life. And here's a dozen or close to a hundred reasons why I ask this question.

I've gone to dozens of churches in my life. People I make friends with and who I consider to be an integral part of my life turn into hypocrites, fakes, two-faced liars and people who constantly make an excuse why we don't socialize, they always say they have to "check their schedule" or "they have to see what's going on that day" and then I never heard back. Or if I do? I hear back one or two days prior to the event we'd talked about months ago. And they get angry when I don't include them. I'm sorry. God makes you a Christian. But he didn't make you a liar. He didn't make you a hypocrite. He didn't make you cast out people that don't go to church. He didn't make you the type of person that stops calling and texting your friends until you feel guilty or obligated. And it angers me. It's happened for 20 years. It's happening right now. And it makes me ask, "Dear God - Are you sure you don't mess up?"

Every single day I struggle with a health problem. An emotional problem. An imbalance chemically in my body. I struggle with emotions, I struggle with anger, and I struggle with a lot of other things I don't discuss. I thought God didn't make mistakes? Well that seems to be a bit of an error on someone's part. Because looking at the "friends" that mistreat me day after day, looking at supervisors who I've had problems with, doctors I've had to see for years, physical problems I've had to deal with, and issues that I cannot seem to get away from, it sure appears that God messed up in this case.

I have a family I don't talk to. I have a brother and sister that I won't ever associate with. I have an abusive father who bullies everyone around him, wants them to be like him, refuses to respect or treat his children in a reasonable manner and if it's not "his way" you're cut off, you're cast out and you're no longer part of his family. I have a mother who barely has anything to do with some of her grand children. She makes excuses. She goes weeks or months without talking to family members. And when she posts on social media, she sure does dedicate a significant part of her life to the "other" children in the family and the "other" grandchildren. I have children that don't associate with their grandfather because he's an abusive bully. He bad mouths people, mistreats them, disrespects them, and my kids want nothing to do with him. God sure didn't make a good thing there did He?

And then let's talk about other things in life. Or let's not. But the question is simple - Dear God - Are you sure you don't mess up?

I could go on for minutes, hours and days about church, fake Christians, fake friends, hypocrites, liars and all the Jesus preachers that don't practice what they preach. I could go on about one thing or another. But I don't. I sometimes blame myself. And I sometimes don't. I sometimes blame God. I question why friends have committed suicide. I question God on why friends have died of horrible diseases. I question at times why one of my best friends died in a car accident just after he finished law school and was finally getting in life where he wanted to go. I question God on why one of my friends hung himself. I question why some of my friends have gone through heartache and pain, have gone through hurt and suffering, and have gone through endless amounts of agony throughout their lives. Can't God make that all better? Hey God? Are you sure you don't mess up?

When you look to the heavens, ask yourself if your life has been perfect. Ask yourself if you've lived happily from one day to the next without suffering, struggling, heartache and pain or if you've gone through one bad thing after another. And then question God. Ask him if He's sure he doesn't mess up.

The point of this article isn't to criticize God. After all, He's given me a couple of very good friends. He's given me two amazing children. He's given me an amazingly beautiful granddaughter. He's given me a marriage that has lasted for years through the good, bad and ugly. And He's stuck with me when the fake Christians, the liars and hypocrites turn the other way and run as fast as they can when I stop going to church, when I stop being a Jesus preacher, and I stop being a bible thumper. I get it. They're embarrassed and don't want to admit they don't want to be "friends" with someone who's not in their church clique. And my question for God is this - Can't He fix the problem, help these Christians realize they're being fake and they are the reason why non-believers are just that, and why many quit the church.

Dear God - Are you sure you don't mess up?

Life isn't intended to be perfect. I've always been told there is only one perfect thing - God. But if you think about the imperfections in the world, people want to blame man. If you think about abortions, babies dying, shootings in the mall, innocent children being killed in classrooms and God not stepping in to fix the problem, it opens your eyes and makes you ask the important question that maybe God does mess up?

But when you think about people wanting to blame people, people pointing fingers, and people saying, "God's not allowed in schools - that's the reason for innocent people dying" I cannot buy that for a second. God is allowed in churches. He's in the church. Yet people have come into the church and killed Christian church going people. Why is that?

Dear God - Are you sure you don't mess up?

The article that you have just read is not a criticism on God. It is a direct insult to many of His people who are liars, fakes, Jesus preachers and individuals that don't practice what they preach. This article is dedicated to the ones that post about their perfect lives on social media, make it look like "their" church is an amazing place to go, and when it all comes down to it, God keeps doing what He's doing, and His people keep screwing things up, mistreating people, abusing people, and families live in disfunction.

There are people like me who struggle with one thing after another. There are friends of mine who have just had their children die. There are friends I've lost to death that have families that are missing them every single day. There are violent deaths on the street, innocent children dying as we speak, people going hungry, people that are homeless, people that are unemployed, and families like mine who don't even talk to each other anymore. You think God could step in and fix the problem?

Dear God - Are you sure you don't mess up?

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