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Our own experience with loneliness, depression, and fear can become a gift for others, especially when we have received good care. As long as our wounds are open and bleeding, we scare others away. But after someone has carefully tended to our wounds, they no longer frighten us or others.
When we experience the healing presence of another person, we can discover our own gifts of healing. Then our wounds allow us to enter into a deep solidarity with our wounded brothers and sisters.
Emphasis mine.
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This devotional, dear friends, is why I speak to reconciliation. First, God loved me, when I was yet a sinner. Second, he allowed me to experience the fact of my own racism (that I foolishly believed was gone with the 60s). Then, He gave me strong teachers and time to study on my own. That is why I, like Nouwen, see myself as “a wounded healer,” though some readers may see me as a fool. God loves everyone, which is why King (God’s prophet to America) told us to fight racism, poverty and war. These are the sins that still divide us. It is through the black church that America will be redeemed, if we are to be redeemed.
Yes, God loves everyone and, through Jesus, wants to reconcile us all to Himself and to each other.
News from Gibbs Racing
Tony Stewart will be leaving Joe Gibbs Racing at the end of the season to buy a portion of Haas Racing. The official announcement will come tomorrow. Meanwhile, rumors fly.
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