Greetings Dear Reader,
We keep hearing about the new normal that is rising in our
culture. I think that if we are going to
abandon things, we must know that to which are we going to make normal. I think that we need to also ask if what we
seek is an honest product of our methods for getting there.
It could be that we have forgotten that only love yields love. I hear so much hatred from conservatives and progressives
regarding each other that it saddens me.
Hatred never yields love. It never yields peace but we convince ourselves
that it does. We want our new normal and convince ourselves that any method of
getting there is acceptable. We are
willing to hate in order to get it,
As long as we hate those who oppose us, we cannot build a
normal that is free, loving, and sustainable.
We are unable to birth peace through hatred and violence. It could be that some have forgotten this and
that some have never learned it. Still,
the division is so great in our society that we have not tried to fix it
through the things we all value,
I would submit that everyone needs to begin by loving others
from the heart. We need to see that we
all want peace and freedom. We need to
also admit that we want that defined by our own creed and not to include
theirs. I want every human to embrace
Jesus and follow him. I am not willing
to deny their needs and freedom to choose to get that desire met.
The hard and narrow path to walk is to give others the
freedom necessary to this thinking and realize that they may still do horrible
things. The deeper truth is that they
will do horrible things and call them good.
The path to peace is to love so deeply and consistently that evil
makes itself evident. It is our love and
kindness that must radiate to others.
Our righteousness and doctrine will need to be what we carry and not
what we insist others adopt.
I must make others remember what it is like to be
loved. I must push them to the place
where love is what they want. That push
itself must come from our demonstrated love as well. Our words only matter when others feel so
loved that they insist to know from whence we acquire that love. We can then stir the memory or create the
knowledge that Christ loves them to a depth that cannot be measured by our minds. Only then, Dear Reader should we speak of the
difference from the selfish methods we all pursue to that path of peace Jesus
asks us to walk. Only then can we create
a normal that works for everyone.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every
writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a
homeowner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
(͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Every human story is part of the great story that leads
to the Father getting everything back to Good.
Contacts for Aramis
Thorn:
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Bookings: aramisthorn@aramisthorn.com
"You know, my dears, the world has been abnormal for so
long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable
climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create it in our own
hearts and homes." -- Madeleine L'Engle, A Swiftly Tilting Planet
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