Comments on: 50 ways to love your leper? http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2007/05/25/50-ways-to-love-your-leper/ digging deep, stretching up, reaching out Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:26:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Richard Harty http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2007/05/25/50-ways-to-love-your-leper/comment-page-1/#comment-423 Richard Harty Tue, 29 May 2007 04:49:49 +0000 http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2007/05/25/50-ways-to-love-your-leper/#comment-423 The more I understand about people who have nothing to lose and due to circumstances of intelligence, resources, and/or weakness face the world stripped of any sense of worth, I can understand why Jesus might prefer to spend time with what we call the underbelly. There can be a lot of dysfunction, but its out in the open. If the truth sets one free, then telling a pharisee the truth is loving them. Its painful and destructive to live life with secrets. Its also painful to have those secrets exposed in less than loving communities. One can only be in Pharisee community as long as one can keep secrets or sustain the illusion. And that's only when you care what the other Pharisees think. May I be free from the opinions of others and free to embrace my faults, because my dark side might need my embrace more than my "good" side. The more I understand about people who have nothing to lose and due to circumstances of intelligence, resources, and/or weakness face the world stripped of any sense of worth, I can understand why Jesus might prefer to spend time with what we call the underbelly. There can be a lot of dysfunction, but its out in the open.

If the truth sets one free, then telling a pharisee the truth is loving them. Its painful and destructive to live life with secrets. Its also painful to have those secrets exposed in less than loving communities.

One can only be in Pharisee community as long as one can keep secrets or sustain the illusion. And that’s only when you care what the other Pharisees think.

May I be free from the opinions of others and free to embrace my faults, because my dark side might need my embrace more than my “good” side.

]]> By: tina http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2007/05/25/50-ways-to-love-your-leper/comment-page-1/#comment-421 tina Sun, 27 May 2007 21:59:05 +0000 http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2007/05/25/50-ways-to-love-your-leper/#comment-421 No, I didn't think that at all! not for a second. I admire you for wanting to love like Jesus does. I hardly ever think about loving the pharisees, but I should. Your post definitely pointed me in that direction. :D No, I didn’t think that at all! not for a second. I admire you for wanting to love like Jesus does. I hardly ever think about loving the pharisees, but I should. Your post definitely pointed me in that direction. :D

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