I am not sure there is a bigger pain

than watching your child suffer.  For some it is illness or injury.   For me today it is simply: Life.

Life is such a beautiful gift ... yet we all know it comes with thorns.  Painful thorns.  None of us want our children to ever have to feel the thorns of life, even though we know it cannot be avoided.

I love my town, I really do.  But there are times I wish I lived in a more diverse and open-minded area.

Living in a small southern town, when you're a "white girl" who happens to have fallen for a 'black boy" really can reveal to you "things" about people.

Nobody should feel tormented for caring for someone.

Personally I do not get it.  God created us all in HIS image.  HIS image.  That means all of us -- red, yellow, black, white, purple, green or in between LOOK LIKE and ARE of HIM, are of each other.

Heaven nor hell is segregated my friends.  God sees no color, no race, no nationality.  He sees only his children.  He expects the same from us.

Yet - my child has been abandoned  by people she thought loved her.  She's been called a "nigger lover" by an ex-boyfriend (who cheated on her btw) both on the phone and on her facebook.  The best friend she stood beside when EVERYONE else left her, no longer will speak to her.  She's in pain and it hurts me so much and the tears flow uncontrollably.  I 'd rather cut off my own arm than to see EITHER of my kids feel any kind of pain. 

The ex mentioned up above brings me to my next point --- why do people accept cheating but not mixed relationships?  Why are people so hung up on race?   Why is it "human error"  (read: forgiveable) to cheat on someone ....hurt someone ...but falling for someone who's skin isn't the same color as yours completely, and utterly unacceptable and unforgiveable?  

I will stand beside my children, always.  Always.  I will delete from my life ANYONE who says anything ugly to or about her.  You do not have to like what she is currently doing.  You do not have to like my attitude about it.  But if you are to remain in my life -- at all.  You will not say anything to or about her in an ugly manner.

It really is that simple.

Will all be forgiven if you have a change of heart later?  Of course.  It is not only what God commands, it is my nature.  

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no aw, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.- Agatha Christie