power of a smile

Today was pretty super. Hung out with my buddy Charles after school. We drove around and he took me to DQ. Yummy-Yummy. I also loved the conversations we had. I love deep conversations. When you can totally just say what you're thinking and know the other person wont judge you or anything. Good conversations come from those scenarios.

UM, UM what else happened today?
Well I think I'm starting to move on from my...confusion on the Holocaust. For awhile I've been so stuck on the fact that all the Jewish ppl who were killed, who were persecuted for their faith, are going to hell based on my beliefs. What I believe says that all those ppl, who I'm thinking we could classify as martyrs are going to hell. Thats been heavy on my heart for awhile. Especially since we had a survivor of the holocaust come to our school the other day to tell her story.

Today I asked myself, 'Well why do I feel so sad about this situation? What about EVERYONE ELSE in the world who dies without knowing God? Without knowing Jesus?" I mean, the holocaust was a horrible thing. Terrible. Even more so because alot of people justified the persecution of the Jews because they blamed them for the death of Jesus.

Christians killing in the name of Jesus.

How messed up is that?
How unbelievably twisted?


I was talking about this with a friend and she said how maybe the Holocaust was God way of telling the people to start accepting Jesus because he promised all this stuff to them but by rejecting Jesus he couldn’t give it to them... i dunno.. it still seems cruel.

On a lighter note. I found a poem I love that i had forgotten about but now have found!

The power of a smile by Tupac

The power of a gun can kill,

And the power of fire can burn,

The power of wind can chill

And the power of the mind can learn

The power of anger can rage inside,

Until it tears you apart,
But the power of smile, especially yours,

Can heal a frozen heart.