How can you overlook the faults and negative patterns in others? I’ve had a hard time for many years but as I am grasping how much I’m loved, I am letting go what has happened in the past. I can’t expect to drudge up slough energy to be be genuine and compassionate with some individuals. But as His love enlightens me, charges me, I sense His pleasure to be civil, even compassionate for what that person is going through. I have a long way to go, but true transformation happens when we surrender to the Spirit’s leading.
“The only kind of love that helps the brain learn better character is attachment love. The brain functions that determine our character are most profoundly shaped by who we love. Changing character, as far as the brain is concerned, means attaching in new and better ways.” - Jim Wilder, Renovated
“We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have in this puzzling and perilous world, and so they are very precious and what we do with them matters enormously.” - Frederick Buechner
“It is important that Christians progress in their understanding of love. To love one another simply out of a sense of duty is good, but to love out of appreciation (rather than obligation) is even better.” - Excerpt, Be Real (1 John) by Warren W. Wiersbe
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