Now: Civility

Have you read the latest? Probably not. It's just my personal experience. It seems now there needs to be a debate on civility. As in what it is, who should engage with it and how ones management of it, or lack there of, is dependent on or in response to someone else.

Yes, by all means. Because one more word needed to be redefined (that was sarcasm, by the way)

I truly feel with each passing day, that I know less and less.
And I'm realizing more and more, there is no way we endure the trials and tribulations of this life without God's help.

Called to be in this world, but not of this world.

I've said it before and I'll say it again... the Christian walk is not for the faint of heart. And so many more have endured and currently live beyond my imagination, both in the risk and reward of God's grace and truth.

Which reminds me, while we are all trying to engage in community as the representation of Christ...

Is love really love without truth? Yes, we can get hung up on the truth that we forget to love, but does love exist without it?
How about compassion? Can I show you compassion while speaking a falsehood or enough of the truth to avoid offense?

The conversation will only get harder. The desire to engage will only become more frustrating, while at the same time more necessary. And notice the work of God in people's hearts and minds take time. Some prepare soil. Some plant seeds. Some water the seeds. And some witness the seed become a stalk of truth and believe in God alone. May that be our hope in the face of difficult people and circumstance.

Pray quite simply, on this #communitySaturday, that God would help us to engage and to know how to effectively handle the role each of us play in the process of making an impact whereby someone comes to the saving knowledge of God through Jesus Christ.

For it does not solely depend upon one of us alone,
But all of us desirous to change eternity on Earth
For the glory of God.

- PNC