Drew Downs, Writing with Hope – Make a New Normal

Forgiveness is the given

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9 min read

Our brains start with the wrong presumption. Forgiveness, not punishment, is the starting place for dealing with our neighbors.

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2 min read

We think of leading and following as separate and independent. This leaves us exceptionally unable to properly follow good leaders.

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3 min read

When we think we are being realistic, we think we are helping. We have no idea that we are actually offering the situation very little.

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4 min read

The problem with mercy is we don’t trust others with it. Which means, whether we like it or not, that we also don’t trust God with it.

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2 min read

This week, we wrestle with the nature of forgiveness and mercy. We do so knowing we might not want to offer it. But we can so choose to.

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1 min read

Rather than think of mercy as something we’re supposed to do when something happens, we cast it as a way of being in the world.