The Art of Good Neighboring in a World of Divide: A Story of a Tree, a Table & a Town that tasted Hope
All the good things in life are simply the hard things that invited grace to keep work through everything.
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All the good things in life are simply the hard things that invited grace to keep work through everything.
For a thousand days, I allowed something to go unsettled and unhealed in both of us because of an offense to my pride.
We do anything we can think of to alleviate their pain, to remind them they’re worthy of lovingkindness—because God says they are.
The only way to travel life’s journey is: Accept brutal hardships on one hand, while gripping Brave Hope in the other.
She said that as she dreamed of the future, she didn’t expect an easy or straight-forward journey to achievement, but she wouldn’t be deterred either.
The margin between what those in poverty have and what they need is thin and they are begging God for someone to show up, to use what they have, to be present.
The goal is not to win but to be like Christ.
In order to move from awareness to acknowledgment, we must first be brave enough to accept the historical truths and modern realities.
Part of our healing comes through lament, acknowledging our pain and the truth of it.
We need an experience with the Word in the world that penetrates the recesses of our hearts.
The day everything came to a head was my first experience holding a weeping abuse victim. She was in her thirties; I was nine.
Jesus spoke life-altering words, but He backed them up with redemptive action—not only on the cross but through the way He loved people.
If only we would stop listening to our measuring sticks and scales and start listening to our promises.
We restore by more than sharing our resources — we restore by sharing the Story.
It’s always easier to see the blindspots of another culture, and another political position, and another’s heart, than it is our own.