the pieces of our lives can become sharp and dangerous like broken glass. These painful weapons cause bleeding to us and to others who are totally unaware of the red flags or warning signs shouting ‘crime scene do not cross’. The Obscurity and shame of our life events can hide our pain even from our own lens. The body’s ability to heal and hold on to its own trauma can mask the areas that need to be exposed to God’s love, compassion, grace and mercy.
How do we identify the triggers and traumas that lie beneath the epidermis of our souls? How can we allow the the spotlight of God’s grace to shine on the callused and wart parts of our lives? What softeners can we apply to bring ourselves back to tenderness.
The conditioner of love is the ultimate product that helps us to overcome a sinful or abusive past. The first book of Peter in the christian Bible urges us to love each other deeply above all, because love covers a multitude of sins. Love makes up the difference. When we love each other we cover each other’s sins. What a beautiful formula that we often overlook in the age of social media that says eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Deep love reaches within the crevices of our joints and marrows and soothes and heals the places plagued by life’s cruelty.
Compassion is the part of love that empathizes and understands. It houses the concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others. Compassion looks through non judgmental lenses and shows sensitivity to the experiences and misfortunes of others. Compassion listens to understand and care.
Another friend to compassion is grace. It is unmerited favor. Grace covers the wounds that we often cannot forgive ourselves for. It is described as simple elegance or refinement of movement. Grace regenerates, sanctifies, inspires and imparts special strengths to bear burdens, endure trials and fight temptation. Grace sometimes needs more help.
This help is given by Mercy. Mercy is the friend who forgives when she or he has the power to punish or harm. It is Mercy whose redemptive power gives us a second, third, fourth, fifth chance towards infinity.
May we encounter love and her three friends: Compassion, Grace and Mercy. When life hardens us, may we be shampooed and washed completely with Compassion, conditioned by God’s Grace and redeemed by the treatment of Mercy. In times of difficulty and distress, may we choose transparency and truth over deception and guile. May we choose humility and vulnerability over pride and arrogance. May love and her three friends chase us down and overtake us and keep us forever soft and sweet. May we use ‘I am sorry’ and ‘I love you’ often as bridges to peace and brotherly and sisterly love.
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