Grace with its certainty that we are loved unconditionally, frees us to hear one another beyond biased agendas or defensive desires to come out on top, in an endless thirst for approval.
Grace offers us courage to access loving-kindness, empathy, healing and hope! In dialogues, it propels our stance into an empathetic middle. We listen without the need to disagree before we fully hear or understand what is articulated. We access humility to inquire more without accusing so that others do not suffer from negative energy generated by defensive judgments or attacks within superficial responses in unsafe settings where thoughtful people feel reluctant to express ideas that counter cruel assumptions. No wonder few or none can expand ideas from diverse angles. No wonder kindness, integrity and truth are rarely well served in current discourse.
No wonder good people feel insecure, disrespected, and disconnected to reflective understanding that benefits all, when grace remains absent.
Grace allows people time, space and inspiration to clarify ideas, learn from missteps and respond back with empathy, respect and dignity all others deserve as God’s creation. When people feel free to speak up and be heard misunderstandings fade into the swells of empathy at work. Opposing ideas replace moral high ground with a desire to uncover truths that spark further dialogue and debate within empathetic and humbly stated positions.
Opposite grace and empathy lie control and opinionated demands where we limit dialogue into shallow eddies. At these superficial levels of what passes for current debates, we are far less capable of hearing from ourselves, one another, or God. That desire to control becomes a habit of blocking those who differ, and that very practice prevents the change or growth it takes to hear and respond to extravagant ideas that build us all a better world.
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