After the terrible tragedy in France my mind wandered to the question that helped begin this series. How does one reconcile with people who chop off reporters heads, or murder cartoonists, or police officers? I am hardly the expert so I’d love to hear from you, but hear are a few thoughts: 1. Don’t…
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Reconciliation 6
There is an old saying that “You can’t pick your relatives.” In reconciliation you can not choose who you journey with. Take with you an attitude that this new individual, or group of individuals, gives you an opportunity to learn about a new culture, and new way of thinking, and a new way of life,…
The Good Samaritan
Most everyone is familiar with the parable of the good Samaritan ( Luke 25-38) , but the beauty of the Parables is the more you read them, the more you get out of them. Often reconciliation requires that we be open to a new way of thinking. Things we believe to be absolute, may not…
Reconciliation IV
As we have learned reconciliation begins with the individual, and it also begins locally. We cannot affect the world stage until we heal the neighborhoods. As we go into the weekend search your heart for local needs for reconciliation, and begin to plan out how to begin a conversation about those needs and what prevents…
Reconciliation III
Reconciliation is more than than ending conflict. Reconciliation is tearing down the barriers that separate us form one another and from God, and living together once those barriers no longer exist. Those barriers are constructed by humanity to separate us. We live behind walls of class, language, economics, age, gender identity, and race. The goal…