God is love, so then love is God; having no ability (or inclination) to fit into the boxes we design to make him more manageable. He is not restrained by ancient texts. The Holy Spirit will not be legislated. She (yep, I consider the Spirit a feminine energy, nurturing and protective...
are you easily offended? Posted in Risking change/changing the risk | Leave a comment Defending ‘American Sniper’ Posted on January 21, 2015 by samuelehall A reblog of Steve Rose’s discussion of “American Sniper.” He quotes Sebastian Junger, who says “they miss being in a world ...
a Jew, that she was a sinner. The atmosphere of friendliness made it possible for Jesus, a Jew, to remind a Samaritan woman of her life of promiscuity without the Samaritan becoming offended.
II. On Being In Love 2.陷入爱河You've been in love, of course! If not you've got it to come. Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. Also like the measles, we take it only once. One never need be afraid of catching it a second time. The man who has had ...
The request deeply offended and angered me. It challenged my most fundamental understandings of justice. Kodenim had stolen a pig from my father, causing a rift in the relationship. His family was sure it was this that had killed him. Maybe my father did not work the witchcraft himself, ...
the anger of an offended God, ready to yield to the demands of his faithful servant who spoke in his name, even to the breaking up of their domestic ties; it was an hour when sin was coming out into the light, and was to be sternly cast out from the midst of them. We look at...
She read this post, written in the heat of the election results, and was deeply offended. So be it. I cannot and will not please everyone. I may want to actually read it again someday, so have filed her long email in my vitriol folder. Maybe she sees the following post as vitriol....
Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts, both to those who love me and to those who do not love me. —Paramahansa Yogananda 80 Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to...
Too often we shy away from sharing our real personality and feelings as a wall to protect our most sensitive insides. Not many folks can take an attack on their core values without feeling offended. But what if you could stay strong no matter what? What if you could be that shining role...
27 Wherefore I have not offended thee: but thou doest me wrong to war against me. The Lord the Judge [o]be judge this day between the children of Israel, and the children of Ammon. 28 Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah, which he had ...