Have you ever hurt someone so deeply that you’ve done damage? Usually wounds result in defenses. Defenses result in more wounds. The relationship, that maybe has lasted years, dies a painful death. When a close friend, who knows the deep parts of us, is suddenly (or sometimes subtlety) stripped from our hearts, the exposure is a raw vulnerable feeling of …
Monthly Archives: May 2010
I met a man in Rwanda, a prison chaplain named Thomas. Thomas serves in a prison that houses some of the perpetrators from the Genocide of 1994. Many of the prison chaplains in Rwanda serve some of the very people who murdered members of their own families. These men and women are the truest kind of heroes. Thomas told a …
Remember when you could buy WWJD? (What Would Jesus Do?) bracelets at 7-Eleven? For so long it was such a catch-phrase that it lost its meaning entirely. It helped us remember that Jesus would not slap the clerk who gave us the wrong change, or run over the person who cut us off in traffic. Jesus, we know, would not …