Jesus called us to love our neighbors as the central part of our witness. He said, “If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Aren’t even the tax collectors and pagans doing that? But love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you then you…
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Actively engaging in the dark parts of the world to bring healing and reconciliation takes energy. It takes more energy than you have. You cannot be an ambassador of reconciliation based in your own strength.
The people through history who go before us and have walked with Jesus as examples of hope and healing are most often people with practices and habits that humbled them to listen to God and follow him. Follow the creator on his mission to reconnect all things. This is what spiritual practices are for.
Spiritual practices create space in our day and habits in our lives to hear God. Time to know how much he adores us and embraces us fully. It’s only in knowing that we are loved and accepted that we can go out and love and serve others without selfishness.
I don’t know who said it but the quote I’ve been hearing in my head the last months is that “We humans need to hear and feel how much God loves us. Once we have that, we can stop doing stupid things to try and feel that love and acceptance from someone else and we can get on with loving other people.”
I think making space to find out that God really does love us is the goal of spiritual practices. Once we have that, we can get on with the reconnecting, peacemaking and reconciling part of God’s mission in his world.
Interfaith dialogue. I’ve learned that transparent and meaningful interfaith dialogue begins and ends with mutual trust. Interfaith dialogue is when two groups or individuals engage in discussion to further their understanding of one another, specifically not to try and synchronize their beliefs (a temptation when just starting to build a…
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