Agape is not a weak, passive love. It is love in action… Agape is a willingness to go to any length to restore…
Agape is not a weak, passive love. It is love in action… Agape is a willingness to go to any length to restore community… It is a willingness to forgive, not seven times, but seventy times seven to restore community…. If I respond to hate with a reciprocal hate I do nothing but intensify the cleavage in broken community. I can only close the gap in broken community by meeting hate with love.
~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wow, what a great message for today’s world.
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We can’t solve the big world problems if we can’t even get along with each other… a quick scroll through my news feed this morning just makes me sick that people are filled with such bitterness toward each other, over the smallest most inconsequential things.
Call me an old softie or an empath or just too sensitive a soul, but it just flat out makes me sad to witness people hating on each other.
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I love this. It is so needed.
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Eggzachary. We really need to make an effort to meet in the middle, IMO. Even if the other is apparently unwilling, we still need to fill our hearts with goodness and reach out. Our goals and wants are really quite the same.
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Lord have mercy…
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And I forgive you M Mak and love you like a brother.
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BobbieZen that shit just doesn’t matter in the big scheme of things. The message above is for the important things. Social media hate is a sport. The hate Dr. King talked about destroys communities.
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Sure it matters. We’re being intentionally driven apart by propaganda for political purposes. Divide and conquer. And most of us fall for it.
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David Renaud I don’t think Bobbie was talking political differences.
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Ok
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Hate is hate. Our words, spoken or written can build bridges or walls.
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Are you enjoying your Band BobbieZen?
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Cilla C That is a great statement for a philosophical discussion. In fact I read an article yesterday that touches on that point very well. I think I’ll go find it for my first post of the day.
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Pam Adger , on the contrary, David Renaud is more spot on that I believe you might be. I’m talking about political debates gone bad, Christians/Jewish/Islam/Atheist/Buddhist, you name it, still railing against each other, a freaking Red Cup, and grown ass men and women acting like jr. high kids when they get behind a keyboard or a smartphone.
I’d have to spent a lot more time on here than I currently have allotted to me to figure out why you think this is about something you find un-MLK-Quote-worthy.
If I can’t use a photo I took of a newspaper my MIL saved to express a thought I had without sparking further controversy, then I guess I had best hang up my hat for the day.
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Band? Cilla C
senior moment
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Darryl Mouzone , I’m not sure what your motivation for bringing that name into a thread of mine might be, but I’m going to pass it off as an attempt at humor and then, I’m going to ignore it.
Ffs.
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BobbieZen because political /social hate isn’t inconsequential as you stated in your first comment. There are grave and important consequences for hate and the things that create that hate aren’t small. That’s why I thought you were talking about something more trivial.
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what I actually wrote was this …(it) makes me sick that people are filled with such bitterness toward each other, over the smallest most inconsequential things…
a red cup, for example.
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But it’s not a red cup… It’s a protest about the removal of Christian symbols from a Christian holiday. It just looks like it’s about a red cup because of the distortion of the issue on social media.
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pedantics, Pam Adger . or as Sean Heffernan would say, #PandaDick
It’s a protest by a UK org that’s now been broadbrushed as a commentary on ‘all Christians’ and it’s pathetic.
But what’s more pathetic, to me, is people’s willingness to let it divide them.
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+100000000000 Korinne M Jackman
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People have been letting religion divide them for ages. If there is nothing to cause controversy then they become irrelevant. What better time to push your Christmas should be for Christ agenda than during the Christmas season? Maybe I am just too cynical but the rush to judge has been a very successful social media tactic and the more it’s successful, the more often it will be used.
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I’m at work.
reading when I can.
A plus is all I’m able to leave at times.
I’ve heard your message, loud and clear…twice this week. Korinne M Jackman , those plusses indicate my agreement. Better?
Now, if we could just get GooglePlus to stop showing us posts that other people plus, I think my experience would be even better.
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BobbieZen It was an attempt at humor, nothing more. Sorry.
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I’m going to disagree about the relationship you’ve drawn between relevance and controversy Pam Adger .
That’s not my experience, at all. but I appreciate your view on the matter.
I don’t need controversy for my faith or my hope or my outlook to be deemed relevant. For me…they are innate and in need of no validation.
I simply wish more of us would practice what we preach.
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Thanks, Darryl Mouzone .
I appreciate your explanation and your apology.
don’t let it happen again
🙂
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Re: Band… I assumed that was your arm in the photo and I also assumed your arm was sporting a Microsoft Band2. I’d been researching them and comparing it to the Fitbit. I ultimately chose the Fitbit.
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Oh, yeah. lol. It’s my arm and my age-spotted hand. Cilla C
Love that band. I got it through another friend of ours, Bill Abrams , in fact. I’ve been sharing it lately with my daughter who has an SGS5, as it’s easier to use with a Samsung (which I previously had)…This one was great, IF you used a Samsung phone, that is.
I’m using a BodyMedia armband most days, and occasionally use this for counting steps, and message notifications.
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Cilla C re: band. It is a Samsung Gear Fit. I’ve been wearing one for almost a year and am pleased with it (except for the band, which sucks).
I recommend it if you have a samsung phone – otherwise not so much because some of its functionality is lost.
Also, I recommend an aftermarket sleeve that will solve most of the band issues because the band sucks.
BobbieZen I think I still have a pink sleeve that will keep the two parts of the band together. If you guys would like,, I’ll ship it up. Because, as you must know by now, . . .
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🙂 thank you Bill Abrams. If you aren’t using it, I’d love it!
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My pink collection is limited to two shirts and the dots on a tie, so I will open up the drawers and boxes it might be hiding in and send it along.
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o/
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good advice http://www.affiliatemarketingtechnique.com/
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