Its funny when non-Christians teach us more about Christianity than the church. Well, maybe that is a slight exaggeration but not by much.

I was talking to one of supervisers who has just got back to work from a year's maternity leave and we were discussing one of the swim tutor's. My superviser Lorna was saying how she hated how lifeguards always made fun of this swim tutor for her weight. This swim tutor, Lorna, pointed out was one of the most active people that she knew, this swim tutor is in the pool every day giving kids lessons and most mornings to swim a few lengths. She eats healthy, she cannot help her weight, and yet is so easy for me to ridicule her for her weight. God knows I'm far from perfect and my weight is the least of my issues but it is so easy to ridicule and put down than to compliment and build up. In the same way it is so easy to gripe and complain about fellow employees behind their backs rather than to defend them to others. This is not what Jesus was talking about when he said Love your neighbour as yourself. I think Christianity should be loving people where they are and for who they are not what they should be and who Iwould like them to be. I can hope and encourage them towards self-improvement. But thats just it it is self-improvement not improvement into the way that I think that they should be.