Imagine if I took all the energy I spend judging other people, deciding how they should use their resources, time and creativity, how much I could accomplish? Not just this week when writing, but all the time.
Jesus said judge not lest you be judged, so I am also inviting a lot of judgment onto myself.
I don't think of people as evil, mostly simply misguided. If only they would make the wise choices I make. If I bothered to turn this lens of correction on myself, I would quickly draw back in horror.
Part of me thinks it unwise to post such a confession. The part of me that insists I do so hopes for the redirection that can emanate from transparency about one's shortcomings. What an understated word for sin.
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Friedrich Nietzsche said, “The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is… that there should be long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.” Eugene Peterson wrote a book entitled A Long Obedience in the Same Direction, and as someone who has served in the same city since 1982, I claim that as my something that makes life worth living.
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- Wife of Roger Mother of Nora, Junia, Luke and Wesley Granny to Kathryn and Nile Founding Pastor of the Winton Community Free Methodist Church
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