Intentionally calling to mind the desire for myself and others to be safe, healthy, and at ease in the world can be challenging enough on its own.
Dealing with the gulf between that intention and our lived reality is a whole other matter, even if I understand that acting with that intention in mind can help over the long-term.
BDG Feature: Dear Otter: A Letter on Complicity and Compassion
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We must remember how our #interpretive frameworks are exactly that, interpretive frameworks, and are not themselves absolute or inspired.
We can use them profitably when they are profitable, but also do well to confess their limitations and weaknesses.
We should not insist on them where they are limited and weak, and do best when we pursue the heart and purposes of God in Christ through the Spirit in matters like #giving and #benevolence.
We must remember how our #interpretive frameworks are exactly that, interpretive frameworks, and are not themselves absolute or inspired.
We can use them profitably when they are profitable, but also do well to confess their limitations and weaknesses.
We should not insist on them where they are limited and weak, and do best when we pursue the heart and purposes of God in Christ through the Spirit in matters like #giving and #benevolence.
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954) French writer
My Mother’s House [La Maison de Claudine], “The Priest on the Wall [Le curé sur le mur]” (1922) [tr. Troubridge/McLeod (1949)]
More about this quote: wist.info/colette-sidonie-gabr…
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. [Il n’est pas mauvais que les enfants remettent de temps en temps, avec politesse, les parents à leur place.] (Source (French))
A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
Kindness is invincible, if it be sincere and not hypocritical or a mere facade. For what can the most insulting of people do to you if you are consistently kind to him, and, when the occasion allows, gently advise him and quietly put him on the proper course at the very time when he is attempting to do you a mischief. “No, my son, we were born for something other than this; it is not I who am harmed, it is you, my son, who are causing harm to yourself.”Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 11, ch. 18 (11.18) (AD 161-180) [tr. Hard (1997 ed.)]
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Kindness is invincible, if it be sincere and not hypocritical or a mere facade. For what can the most insulting of people do to you if you are consistently kind to him, and, when the occasion allows, gently advise him and quietly put him on the proper course at the…
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