Different people, same creator

Today was a new experience for me. I went to watch a Florida State game. I got up around 9 and we got down to Tallahassee about 12. When we got to Doak Campbell Stadium we decided to walk around the entire stadium to see everything around it. First off that is the most beautiful stadium (on the outside) I've ever been to. And yes I've been to both Jordan Hare and Byant Denny. But the out side of 'the doak' was pretty amazing. They had a Bobby Bowden statue that was pretty cool, they also had this one section outside of there stadium called the 'sod cemetery'. In this section they had tombstones from games that FSU had won on the road despite being underdogs. Each tombstone had the sod buried under it and has the score engraved on it. On top of that since they were playing Florida this week there were flowers placed on all of the Florida spots. All in all it was a pretty good experience. I mean it wasn't good enough to convert me but to be honest I did the 'chop' about three times. It's college football tradition...

On the way back I got into a good conversation with my friend that I went with. The conversation was about religion. He's a Hindu and I was wanting to know more about his religion. The thing he said that stuck out to me most was this, "it (his religion) pretty much comes down to this: be good to people, treat them how you want to be treated and everything else will workout." Kinda sounds similar to 'do on to others as you would have them do to you'. But that is there ultimate means to the end. Do good and go to a better place, do bad and go to a worse place. In all this I realized that you can see similarities in religions and in people because we have the same creator.

Today's game was a perfect example of that (and Sanjay pointed this out to me). Me, him and Robert (another one of our friends we sat with at the game) are three of the most different people you can find. I mean outwardly we are a white guy, a black guy and a guy from India. And then our personalities are different in the sense that i'm very loud and talk a lot, Robert is very quiet and Sanjay is somewhere in the middle. But we can still be good friends is the point that Sanjay made. And if you ask me it's because we have the same creator who made us to have friendships and relationship with other people. Just my opinion and the talk on the way home helped me see that there are similarities between morales in all religions. And to me that's because God made us with the ability to know what's right and how we should treat people.

Well, i'm off to bed. Pumped about tomorrow, I get to worship that great creator with my faith family! I hope everybody has a great day tomorrow and finds time and a place to worship Yahweh!

Counting all things loss,

Timothy Mathis