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Are You Aware? Eyes That See
This is part II in our “Internalizing Empathy” Awareness Wednesday series. Christ described our eyes as the lamp of the body. How we see our world determines how we live, the path we choose, and how we spend our time. Empathy is developed through the lens we use to see those around us. A few years ago, one of our sons, Marshall, was diagnosed with a life-threatening condition. He would suffer in pain for several years, only to die young from his incurable condition. It was difficult to watch his struggles. It was not an obvious disability, and some thoughtless comments by others reminded me of the man born blind…
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Are You Aware? We Are All Enlisted
This is part I in our “battlefronts” Awareness Wednesday series. Read the other posts in the series here. I have been thinking about the words “We are all enlisted till the conflict is o’er.” As a pacifist, I am generally not a big fan of battle-themed songs, despite their stirring and jaunty tunes. But this one feels particularly relevant to the lives we are leading today, and as I have thought about the message, I can appreciate the value of metaphors that allow us to identify and “fight” the battles in our lives. If you are like me, you have been worried about a lot of people, and situations beyond our…
