Some thoughts/musings/rants from what was a stressful past week…

It’s easier sometimes, to have grace and patience for the non-Christian who is opposed to everything you believe in, than your brother or sister in Christ, who you might be holding to an impossibly high standard. God asks us to treat everyone with grace, no matter how difficult the situation.

I heard Irish playwright Damian Gorman speaking last week on the subject of despair, and he talked about how the two communities here tended to use their stories as weapons against each other. Each community determined to show that their stories are bigger, their hurt was worse. The same thing usually happens in the smaller conflicts of life.

We can often get entrenched in our sense of being the victim in a conflict. It’s an “easy” place to be because we don’t have to take any responsibility for what has happened, and we put the onus on others to resolve the situation. But we go nowhere when people hide in their trenches.

It didn’t snow in Belfast but it did snow elsewhere. I live in hope.