Before it's too late,

Make amends. Before it's too late, rethink the way you think about others. You, your brothers, your sisters, you closest friends are going to always make choices, for better or worse. And don't be afraid when someone close to you does something considered wrong by you. Maybe there's a deeper cry for help that your blind judgment prevents you from seeing.

Perhaps they do something against your or their religion/morals. Are we going to use that as grounds for disowning them and being angry with them? I don't think that's what our morals ask of us. Maybe instead of condemning them, we can question our standard of ethics. When we mess up, would we want to be excommunicated by the people we though accepted us?

I heard a story of a girl who had a friend who wasn't the coolest girl in school. Her friend ended up committing suicide, and this girl hated her because committing suicide was looked upon as wrong by her religion (She was a baptist Christian). Her quick anger against suicide made her hate someone. My religion and my morals are strongly against hate. She's a Christian, I hope she'd agree. Ten years later, she had a dream of the incident that she refused to speak of. She accepted it, understood the circumstance, and had regret.

So before we send our mistake-making friends into exile, we should remember that we too make mistakes and that no one is apt to perfect behavior. We can't fix them to our liking, but we can love them nonetheless. Before it's too late, take back your ill-regard and replace it with acceptance.

No one ever appointed us with the correct view; therefore we cannot make judgment.

C'mon, brothers and sisters, love with me.