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It is nice to have an exhibit ‘A’ of someone managing conflict morally
One of the great challenges with being part of a community is that people are painful. I love the quote from Henri Nouwen: Community is the place where the person you least want to live with always lives. Sometimes that person can be me. I can be a real mongrel sometimes. Other times though, it is other people who are being the mongrel and what do you do? I’ve had a few disagreements lately so I’ve been thinking a bit about the best ways to manage it. Fortunately Jesus knows we are all mongrels and actually lays out a step by step plan for what to do when you think…
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Divisions form in the rift of unresolved pain
It was interesting to hear my wife’s response to my reflection yesterday. She said “it sounds like you aren’t going to do anything when anyone does something wrong”. I can see how she would have picked that up from what I wrote, but that was not what I was intending to communicate. We were watching a movie last night and the soundtrack featured a song by the band Sparklehorse called “Revenge”. The song captures the dilemma of dealing with injustice. One lyric particularly stood out: “somehow forgiveness lets evil make the laws”. I can really identify with this lyric. Somehow “the Jesus way” can feel a bit like the way…
