Month: May 2009
My Hypocritical Oath
My heart is heavy this week. I’ve come to realize I am a hypocrite. The definition of hypocrite is someone who “professes beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess.” You may ask what has sparked such a revelation. The truth is, there wasn’t a revelation. It was something I innately knew for a while; I was just confronted with it recently and couldn’t avoid it. I am a hypocrite because I profess to love Christ, but I don’t always love others. → Read more...
You Need to Be Rich to Be Poor
May 28, 2009
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Sometimes when the Holy Spirit tugs, you need to listen, you know? This week it brought an article in The Washington Post to my attention. The first line of the article, in which I have paraphrased as this week’s title, hooked me in. It’s quite a lengthy read for the internet, but well, well worth your time. Here’s the link. The article goes into detail the problems that people who are in poverty face and into the harsh irony that living in the middle class or upper class is actually cheaper than living below the poverty line. → Read more...
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