And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved. Matthew 10:22 NKJV
I guess because of my Christian beliefs, I am the bigot & the enemy even though I've condemned or hated no one. It's happening more and more, yet the world refuses to see it. I know what's going on, I've experienced it first hand. The world is turning on Christians and it's just going to keep getting worse.
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If you're going to judge someone, walk a mile in their shoes first. By that being said, I think it's time for you to walk in my shoes. Let's start this story from the beginning. My name is Adam Michael Snow, and I was born May 30, 1988 in Phoenix, Arizona. When I was born, I was lacked of oxygen; they did not notice till hours later, any longer and I would have died. Because of that, I had a delayed speech; I didn't start talking till I was three. They diagnosed me with ADHD when I was four; at the same time, I started to take Ritalin (it started off with small doses, it got out of control later on.) They even diagnosed me with a speech impairment, that's why I stutter when I talk. Later on in life, into my 20's I found that I had been misdiagnosed. I wasn't ADHD as I was raised to believe, I was in fact had Asperger, a form of Autism.
When I first started school, I had many friends, despite my disabilities. When I was seven, I fell ill to Spinal Meningitis. The doctors said that if I were to've come a day later, I could've died. I spent that whole week in the hospital. Throughout my childhood, they were always upping my dose of Ritalin. By the age of eleven, they had me on adult doses; the results of it caused me to be zombie eyed and it stunned my growth. It wasn't until I was eleven when I stopped taking Ritalin; I was in sixth grade. That day I lost my friends, they only liked me because I was drugged out on Ritalin. When I was in seventh grade, I met a good friend; his name was Joshua. Even though he was wheelchair bound, he had a heart of gold. By the end of my seventh grade school year, my family and I moved; I started my eighth grade at another school, that's when the bullying started. The bullying would continue all throughout high school and would go on every day. In 2002, I was a freshman in high school; that was also the year I lost my good friend Joshua; he was fifteenth when he died. Being the youngest, I get picked on all the time. So because of that, I felt like I had no place safe; I was being bullied at school and at home. It was because of that, I thought about hurting myself, there were times I even felt suicidal; I just wanted to die, the pain was that bad. Then poetry entered my life, through my cousin; poetry saved my life. That's why I refuse to quit writing. I wrote my first poem when I was fifteen. The bullying was so bad at school; I came so close to dropping out. In 2006, I managed to graduate high school; a year later, my parents split up and we lost our house. It was just my mother and I, when we moved in with my aunt and uncle; I didn't felt safe there, it didn't feel like a home. Later that year, my parents got back together and we finally moved out of my aunt's house. In 2009, I found out my dad had cancer; I lost him three weeks before Christmas. Not soon after, my family and I were illegally evicted and were force to stay in a rugged house. That house was on the market to be sold; we were its temporary house keepers. We were always on edge, afraid; not knowing if and when the house would be sold and we would be stuck on the streets. But God had answered our prayers; in 2011 we moved into the house I am currently living in today. In 2012, I went into the hospital again; I was in so much severe pain that I couldn't sleep for days. I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis. Now today, it's been ten years and I still haven't worked a day in my life. I am constantly searching for a job every day; I've only had six job interviews in my life. I felt as if no place won’t hire me, because I had no job experience; yet I can't gain job experience if I don't work. It's like I can't gain ahead in life. I wasn't just on Ritalin when I was a kid, I was on several other medications, it’s just too many to name. I'm not telling you my life story because I want pity; I don't want your pity. I'm telling you my story as a life lesson. What I'm trying to say is, if you're going to judge someone or insults someone, walk a mile in their shoes first. You may not realize it, the person you're judging or insulting may in fact be hurting and it might just take that one push from you for that person to take their own life. Now you know my story and please, don't show pity for me. Just stop with all the insults and judging, it's annoying, rude and also childish. And for the record, I will never give in to suicide. I was just merely using my life, my pain and struggles as an example. Life is a fragile thing, don't ruin it. Don't let your pain and struggles drag you down, let it build you up and make you stronger. Don't lose yourself and don't give in to the world. There’s more to you than what you really know. Does anyone visits http://poemhunter.com? I go there all the time to share my poetry and to talk in the forums. Well, I just got an email from Poemhunter. They removed one of my forum post after explaining to me that it was deemed offensive and hostile. This is that post. There's nothing wrong with having faith and believing in God and there's nothing childish about it, it just shows that I'm human and that I have freewill to believe in what I want to believe and who I want to believe in. There's nothing immature about it. What's immature is telling someone to grow up or pretty much telling them to give up on their faith. You said, " Do you see him when children are raped and beheaded?" God gave man freewill, but man has chosen to abuse it. God gave man freewill so they can choose for themselves to call on God with true feelings. So when a child is raped or beheaded, it's because man has chosen to do so out of freewill. So God isn't to blame, but man. God didn't force man to do harm to children, man knew exactly what they were doing. And about the blacks suffering in Africa. Did you know that there are over 5000 Christian organizations that are designed to help with people all around the world. They help bring clothes to the clothesless, they bring food to the hungry. There's organizations that are building homes for the homeless all around the world. God is answering people's prayers through those organizations. But most of these organizations are made up donations only. You see, we (man) has spent trillions of dollars all on war on both sides. The money used for war is more than enough to stop world hunger, but man has chosen to use that money for bloodshed. Again freewill. Man choose to waste away money on bloodshed then to help those in need. God is not to blame, but man. Man is who is destroying this world, not God. Yet man keeps blaming God for everything. The truth is, the fault is on us, man. Do you find anything offensive or hostile in this post?
In honor of the second blood moon eclipse, here is a poem I wrote during the last blood moon eclipse. A Blood Moon Night I see people posting on Facebook all the time, saying that the Bible doesn't mention anything about gay marriage. That is false. You see in Leviticus chapter 18 verses 22, it states, "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination." which means that man cannot sleep with another man like they would a woman. Also I Corinthians chapter 6 verses 9 through 10 also say, "Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God." but after long research the Bible doesn't really mentioned about gay marriage that many thinks by the words homosexuals and marriage in one verse together that gay marriage is ok, that is not true. Like I mentioned before in Leviticus where it says, "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman." that line was also referring to marriage. 'But where at in the Bible does it say that marriage should only be between a man and woman, you might ask. Well, the closest I found is in I Corinthians chapter 7 verses 2 and 3, "Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband." in that verse, it does not say that man should have man and woman should have woman, but man should have woman and woman should have man. I'm not trying to hurt anyone by posting this; I have many friends and family members who are gay. I am posting this because this is my belief. God does not hate gays; it's just that gay marriage is not and never will be God's plan, that’s man’s plan. In my honest opinion, supporting gay marriage is like me turning my back on God the father, I just can't. This is why I cannot support gay marriage; instead I support God and his teaching that marriage is defined by man and woman alone. You see, my pastor once said, “As Christians, we are to love unto the gays. We may not agree to the way they live their lives, but we must love unto them as God has loved unto us.” That is the true Christian way. It’s not our place to condemn them; instead we must love unto them. We don’t have to agree to their gay lifestyles. Sure we may be called ‘bigots’ for not accepting them one hundred percent, but the best thing we could do is keep showing them with love. That is what God would want us to do. Again, I apologies to those that might have gotten offended by this post, this is what I believe and this is where I stand. It’s funny how offensive people get when you express your beliefs. I lost my best friend; she condemned me after she said that I had condemned her first. I condemned nobody. All the posts that I had posted on Facebook regarding homosexuals were not hate posts, but love. Yet she saw it as me condemning her. I do not hate the gay community, I may not agree to how they live their lives, but I do not hate them. I love them as God loves me. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. - I John 4:8 NKJV If you want proof of God's existence, look towards the positive, like the birth of a child. A woman with cancer, who was told would not make it remarkably, she's healed and the doctors speechless. Someone who was paralyzed and was told they would never walk again, takes their first steps and begin walking. Someone who was blind, who now could see. A deaf man hearing for the first time. Miracles like this are happening around the world, I've seen it first hand, experienced life changing miracles myself. You might say that it's all mind over matter, that you can do anything if you put your mind to it. That may be true, but God supplies the healing if you put your faith and trust in Him. You're never going to find God if you keep looking towards the negativity of the world. To find God, you got to look towards the light, the positive side of the world. God exists and He is love and He's alive forevermore. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. - I John 4:8 NKJV Writer's Block Tips I: When I am dealing with writer's block, I have an exercise I do. I create a list of poetry titles, so that when I am suffering with writer's block, I go to that list. When I'm scrolling through that list, I'll let the words flow through me and pick a poetry title. Once I pick a title, I'll write a poem based off that title. This exercise has helped me several times. It's easy to do, I normally use an app on my phone when creating a poetry title list and whenever an idea for a title pops into my head, I would add that title to the list. If you ever struggled with writer's block, I suggest give this a try. It might help you. Sonnet 101 How to write a Sonnet. A Sonnet is a real good poetry style to learn for beginner poets. When writing a sonnet, you must first know: As an example, we will use Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 18' Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, I have decided to add a blog to my website, so I can express my random thoughts and maybe give some poetry tips. So yeah, this is my first blog post and I hope you guys enjoy it. Oh, and here is a random picture of me. Peace and love |
"There's light in every darkness, you just have to find it." AuthorA.M. Snow is a poet, photographer and in his own way, a philosopher and he is a strong devoted dedicated follower of Jesus Christ. BlogAdam's personal blog for all his randomness and poetic thoughts. Archives
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