CREATE JOY

When we were born we did not come with a label, but shortly there after one or more got applied!  short chubby beautiful homely cranky dark fair pale and the list goes on.....as we grow some stick, some get replaced but we all have at least one label.  It's usually one that we prefer not to have. Society is big on labeling.  It is so frustrating and it can consume our thoughts to the point that we are formed by it, and controlled by it.  Many times down through my life I have heard those labels and allowed them to define me.  Labeling has probably always existed, we have seen entire races defined by a label some thoughtless person spit out of their mouth.  IN  Mark 7:25-30, the story of the Syrophenician woman is found.  When I first read it years ago, I must admit, it shook me to read the words Jesus spoke to this woman.  Why would my Lord, the One who loves us more than any other apply such a mean label to this woman?   I sat in my confusion of this story for q