If I am not mindful, my intense desire for justice sours all goodness. Hatred is kindled, and more often than not, emotions and sharp words cast off Christ in my exchanges.
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Sign of Original Integrity
“A compassionate, loving, and merciful heart is a sign of restoration of human nature to its original integrity. 👉Such a heart bears the unity of all humanity and the cosmos.👈 Everything lives in a compassionate heart—people, animals, plants, and all organic and inorganic matter. Thus, the believer becomes like God. Like Christ, he is noContinue reading “Sign of Original Integrity”
A Mom I Met
Sometimes, I meet people and learn bits of their story…at the store, at a traffic light, at work, at school. They are often unexpected—the stories I hear—but I am rarely as moved as I was this week during an encounter with a stranger.
Traces of Hatred
I am desperate to weed out the anger, the hatred, the prejudice from my heart. There is nothing in the way of Christ that looks like the climate today—the twisting of politics and doctrine, the excuses for hate speech and elitism. Why is it so easy to fall into the tossing waves of this worldContinue reading “Traces of Hatred”
Traces of Hatred
I am desperate to weed out the anger, the hatred, the prejudice from my heart. There is nothing in the way of Christ that looks like the climate today—the twisting of politics and doctrine, the excuses for hate speech and elitism. Why is it so easy to fall into the tossing waves of this worldContinue reading “Traces of Hatred”
A Mom’s Peacemaking
A long time ago, a friend spoke some truth to me that went dormant in my heart. Lately, it is pressing on me more and more. She said, “You shouldn’t let your kids offend you.” This was after I admitted to being personally offended by my school age children’s words. It’s so hard to notContinue reading “A Mom’s Peacemaking”
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