"What if we looked at the world as Julian (of Norwich) learned to, 'with pity and not with blame'? What if we heard God's call to evangelize out of love instead of fear, hope instead of judgment? What if we saw sin for the complex mixture it is, grounded in wounds and unmet needs? What if we automatically tried to see the 'total fact' of others? In short, what would it mean to read our world with a hermeneutic of love?" -- The Mystic Way of Evangelism by Elaine A. Heath
On this Maundy Thursday as I think of the new covenant, the new command that Christ gives his followers, I see a different picture of the broken body, the "poured out'" cup. The complete surrender unto death. A life lived out and emptied out in the "hermeneutic of love." Kenosis. What does it mean to empty ourselves of blame, fear, judgment. What does it mean to see the world through eyes of love?
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