Many people learn how to talk, but they don't learn how to listen. Listening to one another is an important thing in life. And music tells us how to do that.
03781 – Music Helps Us Listen
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03780 – Keeping People Passive and Obedient
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum--even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking...
03777 – Beautiful and Beloved
Far more people die of a withered heart than an inflated head. Never hold back from letting the people in your life know how beloved and beautiful they are.
03767 – Love Takes Time
Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.” from The Art of Neighboring: Building Relationships Right Outside Your Door
03764 – Never Forget!
Never forget the ones who saw you at your lowest point, and instead of offering judgment and distance, they extended presence and grace--those are your people.
03763 – Sensitive AND Tough!
I find them fascinating, admirable, even; those people who are sensitive enough to feel everything, but tough enough to endure it.
03754 – Bearing the Image of God
Through Christ's incarnation, all of humanity regains the dignity of bearing the image of God. Whoever from now attacks the least of people attacks Christ, who took on human form and who in himself has restored the image of God for all who bear a human countenance....
03752 – Jesus & Hypocrites
That is why Jesus criticizes hypocrisy more than anything else. Jesus is never upset with sinners, but only with people who pretend they are not sinners. Check this out, story by story, in the Gospels. This is surprising and even shocking!" from Things Hidden -Richard...
03744 – Strongman vs. Scapegoat
Beware systems and identities that need: 1. A Strongmanand2. A Scapegoat There will be no end of violence when these two exist. They legitimate and fuel each other. Jesus demonstrates how demonically futile the Strongman/Scapegoat mechanism is in his death and...
03739 – Source vs. Vessels
God may be the source of love, but people are often the vessels. from Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times