Life before 2008 16 Nov 2005 02:24 pm
about that Bonhoeffer quote…
On the site where I first saw it, my friend Rachel had this to say about it:
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When we step back from evaluating performance, we can see with compassion not only the frailties of others, but our own as well. An eye that sees suffering sees the personal cost of life–what living takes out of one, what living in community requires of one, what it doesn’t give back. It sees hearts, not products. A product mentality cares only about successes and failures; compassion cares about fellowship and bearing one another’s burdens, finding someone to help us bear ours. The incarnation is a perfect picture of this–God with us, not God measuring us. “
One thing I really miss that’s in storage is my Advent devotional book, Watch For the Light. Especially on a late autumn day like today, grey and cold and windy, with Thanksgiving and the begining of Advent quickly approaching, it seem like quiet comfort to ponder the incarnation and what it means, how it is suposed to change us.
