Lent
Forbearance
Forbearance is about responding to another person’s flaws with the kind of grace and love that can only come from the Holy Spirit in our lives.
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Patience is about trust. We can be patient because we trust everything will be all right in the end and the results are worth waiting for.
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We tend to think of patience as an individual virtue, which is largely a reflection on our narrow understanding of how the word was used in the New Testament.
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In an era with instant oats, two-minute rice, and same-day delivery, we don’t often find ourselves with cause for building patience in our everyday lives.
Continue ReadingSmall Acts
Small acts of loving-kindness, embodied in our everyday lives through the power of the Holy Spirit, can change the world.
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At its core, kindness is about lovingly serving another through sacrificing something of ourselves: time, money, skill, resources.
Continue ReadingSabbath: Psalm 23
Take time this Sabbath to meditate on today’s passage from Psalm 23 (WEB), reflecting on how it relates to the fruit of the Spirit from this week: goodness and kindness.
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Truly if there is any verse in all of Scripture that summarizes what it means to be kind, it is this one.
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