Are we true Christians

I became frustrated today. I was reading Facebook and Mark Shea wrote about Matt Walsh and his dislike of his writing. Especially about suicide. Mark is a converted Catholic that has irritated me for years. He will make a statement and then all these supposedly Catholics will jump on the band wagon of annihilation of someone's character. He called Ann Coulter an attention whore! If that isn't the pot calling the kettle black. The best part is, I never friended him. I never followed him. It is as if Facebook needed some entertainment and shoots out what Mark is saying every once in awhile. Every single time I become infuriated. So today I again called him out on his grandiose statement that Matt Walsh doesn't understand suicide. Do you understand suicide? I don't. I have encountered it among many people in my life. Starting in eighth grade when we all went to school to find out our classmate shot himself in the head. That was the first dealing with suicide. Since then I have dealt with the tragedy many times.

On another Facebook page a friend talked about the rape in Steubenville. She posted a news item. An interview with the coach of Big Red explaining why this boy was playing football again. He did his time, nine months of the one year sentence. He completed everything that was asked of him. He did everything the school required of him. He has to register as a sex offender every 120 days for the next 20 years. So my friend asks, when do we forgive him? As Christians, when do we forgive?

That brings me to one more page in Facebook that is supposed to be about Catholic Women. This page is supposed to support stay at home Catholic Moms or working Moms or a woman in turmoil asking for prayers. It isn't. It is a place where 20 women will support, give advice, many prayers and comfort and THEN a woman will get on and tear down the woman in need. At first I thought, it was someone's bad day. It has happened by different women over and over, until finally I had to not belong to this page.

So what are we as Christians called to do? When do we shut our mouths of criticism and offer kindness and prayers? When do we seek forgiveness? When do we give forgiveness? What about charity? In the past year I have realized how many people suffer. There have been people that have burdens but I have been watching an increase of anger, frustration and plain meanness. My own plate is overflowing with worry. We need to keep our eyes on Jesus. Jesus I trust in you. So simple, just do it. Stop and really look at the person you are about to hurt. Just stop.

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