Supporting a Friend

            It is strange because I still want to write in my blog but it is like I don't need to do it right away. That is a good thing though because it means I am getting less and less anxious about things. It means that I don't need to let my thoughts out like I use to and if I do I am turing to the Right Person, instead of random people. Like this entry, this happened Friday but I kept putting it off til now. I was thinking about not writing about it but then it hits me. Maybe someone needs this little encouragement about supporting a friend or the one they love? Here I am writing about what happened Friday morning while at work.
           I will try to be clueless about the person but it might be a little hard. It all started because I have this decal on the back of my car to support a friend of mine and the work that they do. My co-worker said, "I have noticed that decal on the back of your car and it makes me think that you hunt. Do you? Do you kill little Bambi?" Of course I replied back, "No, I don't. I just support a friend of mine with it." And the talk stopped there. We went back inside and started to work again. I didn't think much about the talk until I got home Friday night during my quite time. My friend and others like my friend get teased at, get made fun of, and even get hate messages sent to them or said to right to their face. When I thought about what my co-worker said, even though I knew it was out of curiosity, it made me think is this what my friend feels like.
           I mean when you and if you get down to my background at all, you will see if I get the chance to hunt, I will. I am not against it at all. It is sad, yes but it is needed at the same time. I grew up in a hunting community. A BIG hunting community where all, if not most of, the guys in my class hunted. It was a big thing where I grew up. I started to think about if the talk would have gone the other way. What if I did hunt? Then what would she had said? What would I have felt? I mean once I got home that night, I felt kind of bad because she was hitting at how I was raised even though she didn't know that. I don't think she was against it either, she would have probably just been surprised if I did because I never talk about it.
            It got me thinking that if a small comment like that can really start to tug at my heart and my life then how are these real hunters feeling when someone makes fun of them or says something rude about them. I can't think of how many times my friend would and has gotten letters and messages from people that disagree about hunting or ways of hunting. I mean hunting is a big idea but there is a lot of little things in that idea and ways. You will always have someone not like you. It is just life. This situation made me see that I need to support my friend more then I already do and also that all the support that I do already really does make a difference in the show and the community of hunters. Now some of you might think I'm not a hunter so this doesn't apply to me but yet it does. It was just a situation I was in on Friday but it could be any situation.
            It could be about supporting your husband in marriage. Supporting your children when they need it the most and when they come ask for your help in and with things. It could be supporting another friend that is taking on something really huge and people don't think she can do it or just look at her strange when she is out in public. You are with her when she is out, they will look at you strange too. It is about supporting family no matter what they believe or how they are like. It is funny how God opened up my eyes during my quite time about this. I felt great that I finally got to stand up for my friend, even if it was in a small way. I got to say that I had this decal on my car to support him and that was it. I could have started a whole conversation about the show if my co-worker wanted to know more but she didn't. It was just knowing that that chance was there.
            This could also be about sharing Jesus to someone who doesn't believe. It is the little questions that you get ask off and on that really mean something. It is the invite you gave to this non Christian friend that means something. You are there supporting that friend and giving them a better way to deal with things and life. Even with this show, I could have gone on about how it was Christian based and how my friend was a believer and all of those things. It does feel good when you know the background of a show or life because then you can tell people more about it. That is where testimonies come in, I guess. Friday was just an eye opener for me in a lot of ways. I just know now that I am not taking the hunting community lightly like I have been and I do support them.
            I could have become real in that moment if we had the time. I could have told them about my background and how I grew up in a hunting community too. I could have told them that if I had the chance I will try and hunt. I am not scared of shooting at something, whether a deer or turkey or another animal. I just won't ever do bears. That is where I would stop in hunting but again that is just my opinion and how I was raised. It is a strange reason but it is a reason I don't take lightly.
               The most important thing, I think, to take away from this entry is this: "Watch out for those little moments and/or comments about common things because it is in those moments that you can become real and share Christ with a person."