"Let love be sincere;hate what is evil,
hold on to what is good;
love one another with mutual affection;
anticipate one another in showing honor."
(Romans 12:9-10)
It is a tribute to the weakness of our character that we have traded that courageous and costly love which rejects all that is disordered in the one we hold dear, even as it recognizes and embraces the good in them. Is it any wonder why our friends, our parents, our siblings, our children and our spouses are insecure in our affection?
How can they be certain that they matter to us when we refuse to see them in all their glory and shame? They cannot. And so, both to love and to the honor it bestows, we remain foreigners!
Today's Readings: Wednesday, May 31st, 2006.
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