embodying love
How can you take a step today to actively embody love toward someone with a love that is full of mercy, compassion, patience, and forgiveness?
1 Kings 17:15
She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family.
I recently saw a film where the main character healed the villain. The two became allies and eventually friends; the once-villain was no longer confined to the story others had told about them. They wrote a new story instead.
And while I know this was just a film, I also know that what the human brain can conceive has the power to move and change us.
This was a strong reminder to me that this type of mercy-filled, compassionate, full-of-forgiveness type of love can exist and does exist in our world, if we let it.
God’s transformative love in Psalm 145:8 can also be our transformative love.
How can you take a step today to actively embody love toward someone with a love that is full of mercy, compassion, patience, and forgiveness?
— Amanda Creek
Love this reading of the story! Seeing mention of enough to eat in the text, I immediately think of Gazans being starved right now. I pray for the kind of transformation of perception you write about, that Israelis — and all of us across the world — will come to see Palestinians not as enemies, not as a threat, but fellow human beings.