Today’s post is found at thehubbellpew.com. I commend to you Becky’s latest comment and encourage you to comment as well. Y’all get reconciliation better than I.
As I watch on TV and read about the Paris march and other events surrounding the massacres in Paris and Africa, I can’t help but wonder about the motivation and thinking of the assassins.
It seems to me that if you want to move people to change, if you want them touch their hearts, you do it with acts and words of love, not hate or destruction.
I know for me I am moved by scenes of love in a movie. Yes I get sappy. My heartstrings are pulled when I see or hear expressions of love. Bravery inspires me when it is motivated by love of others, above personal risk, but when someone does something that puts him or herself at risk for personal glory, I wonder about the person’s sanity. I am not motivated to join his or her cause or jump off a cliff with them.
Reconciliation begins and ends with love. All faiths at their core are about love. We can never get closer to God or bring others to God when we act otherwise.
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