God’s Inclusive Love MAY 18, 2014 Today’s Reflection JESUS WELCOMED AND INCLUDED all races and cultures. He gave healing and guidance to Gentiles and pagans as well as to Jews and the orthodox. … He recognized no impassable barriers between himself and those considered heretics, such as the Samaritan woman with whom he talked at the well. A “good Samaritan” businessman became the model of courageous compassion in his most famous parable. Jesus gathered into his warmth those whom orthodoxy labeled as outcast sinners to be avoided. He touched and let himself be touched by those whom society condemned as impure and contaminating. … He treated destitute beggars with dignity. Jesus emphasized that what flows from the heart is what matters most to God. We are set free to make choices and to set others free also to choose. We are free to speak to God without intermediaries. We are given freedom to thrust aside the walls of exclusion and give healing love directly to one another. - Flora Slosson Wuellner
Posted on: Sun, 18 May 2014 08:52:23 +0000
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