Reflections & Ponderings Spiritual Formation

To Forgive or Not to Forgive?

PART 1 Saying, “I’m Sorry,” in China was a tricky business. To apologize meant incriminating yourself to some wrong putting you at fault. The word ‘sin’ means criminal. To apologize labeled you as a criminal by your own words. For example, if a car hits a person biking on the road, keep in mind the traffic is mostly standstill pace, the driver would never apologize. To show a glimpse of remorse would impose this driver…

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Reflections & Ponderings Spiritual Formation The Pilgrim Life

Beautiful Mess

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end[…]I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him. Ecclesiastes 3:11 & 14 Thailand’s night markets teem with tourists from around the globe all in search…

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