If you have no other "best friends" than your family, you need to take a close look at those relationships. If you have never questioned set boundaries, or experienced conflict with your family members, you may not have an adult-to-adult connection with your family. We are sons and daughters of the Most High and maturing in tenderness to the extent that we are for others - all others - to the extent that no human flesh is strange to us, to the extent that we can touch the hand of another in love, to the extent that for us there are no others. We are not for life simply because we are warding off death. How I treat my brothers and sisters from day to day, whether they be Caucasian, African, Asian, or Hispanic how I react to the sin-scarred wino on the street how I respond to interruptions from people I dislike how I deal with ordinary people in their ordinary unbelief on an ordinary day will speak the truth of who I am more poignantly than the pro-life sticker on the bumper of my car. Living in the wisdom of accepted tenderness profoundly affects my perception of reality, the way I respond to people and their life situations. My identity as Abba's child is not an abstraction or a tap dance into religiosity.
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