What’s Normal

I was reading a book by actor Stephen Baldwin and in one of the last chapters he asks the question, "What is normal?". His idea was something like what is normal to the Andes Indians, like eating roaches, is not normal to us in America. Then again, eating hamburgers from Burger King is normal to us in America, but is not normal to the Mexicans in Monterey.

Then he was saying that God did an extraordinary turn around in his life and his "over the edge" ways of witnessing is probably not normal for what most church members do. That got me to thinking. Why do we think that Southern Gospel is the "normal" music that everything should be compared to. Now, I LOVE Southern Gospel Music, and it is normal for me, however, I have a friend in Memphis that listens only to Praise and Worship, so to her, that is normal. I know some teenagerws that listen to Christian Rock and they think that is normal. So, who's to say what normal is. I know what's normal for me and you know what's normal for you, but that doesn't make what we like normal for our neighbor. They may think that Country Music is normal. I guess I'm trying to say that we all need to be a little more tolerant of what other people think about their music. CCM and P&W arern't of the devil, and their not trying to please the world with their music. For those who like it, it's just "normal".

So, let's try to be a little more considerate of what we say about other genres of music. Remember, it's normal for somebody.