Growin' Up Gregory

Often times we only see what people do because we aren't patient enough to hear or find out the reason why they did it.  We see it when politicians vote a certain way, when families make difficult choices that seem 'wrong' to us, and when people make life altering decisions that we just don't get.  But sometimes the "what" is actually less important than the "why." You may have a family member who moves away from you and takes their immediate family with them.  You are now placed at a great distance from your brother, sister, nieces, nephews, or whoever moved away.  The WHAT of that hurts.  But we must be patient to hear the WHY.  Maybe they feared losing a job, or found a better one.  Maybe a child was being bullied, or they moved for an educational or some other purpose.  The WHY matters a great deal before you get upset simply over the WHAT. In Acts 14, Paul and Barnabas were preaching in Iconium when they learned of a plot against them to ...