Because...Beloved

because He gave us a choice, because we'd rather pay for glory and power than humbly accept The free gift, because you need two options to have a choice, because he is deceiving, because we think there is a price for everything, because we have to be P.C., because people arn't carefull, because life isn't fair, because we're looking in the wrong places, because we each have a different thing we're seeking, because it involves becoming vulnerable to both extremes, because we want revenge, because it's winter, because we're not capable of it, because the salt doesn't evaporate but it does run in with the rainwater, maybe we do, they were placed there, all the more to magnify His glory with, because we think that pain is a constant not a problem, because our eye percieves it as blue, because sometimes the darkness seems so thick, because it takes committing to that faith, because it means making yourself vulnerable, because it's harder to break a good first impression than it is to make up for a bad one, because everyone wants to be a rebel, because we've made God in our image instead of working ourselves into His, because they're searching for love, because it makes the plastic go a longer way, because Americans have to have dessert, because it involves becoming vulnerable, because we can be very self-centered, because we think that success is found in our jobs–our salaries– our 2.5 kids– our friends opinions, it means that we were created to be different–that we are Holy vessels–that He loved us That much, because red catches our eye over almost any other color--it's like a horn to our brain--better to be told with a horn to stop than to go.