Every once in a while we are called to be the agents of
dramatic changes in a household. Some
people call it “tough love”. Others
refer to it as naming the elephant in the room, or calling a spade a
spade.
When God uses us in this way we often need to face the
status quo and disrupt it in the name of a greater good. It is often a matter of justice. It is always a matter of bringing the truth
into the light.
It rarely makes us popular in the eyes of others.
Reflection: How have YOU been used in word or deed as an
agent of truth and authoritative love.
Write: Once upon a time, I was the person who waved
chords of truth that changed my household (or workplace or congregation or
community).
I can remember several instances of people saying to me, "I don't like so and so." And I would say, "Really? Why don't you like that person? Did something happen?" They would stop, ponder for a few seconds and reply, "Well, um no, I heard they were mean (or grumpy or a tyrant or whatever)." I would pursue that line of thought a bit more and ask, "Well what has your relationship with this person been like?" And then the truth came out, "I don't really know that person, I was just taking someone else's word for it." Things opened up from there between people who had no idea who each other were. . .
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