When grace replaces guilt and fear...
When relationship outweighs behavior...
When church involvement becomes meaningless rituals...
When you refuse to live in fear of what others might think or say...
When rejecting others over dogma or doctrine becomes sickening...
And when you want to be a simple human being accepting and loving all the other human beings...
The only thing left is a carpenters son saying Come Follow Me and that makes all of the difference.
I have always had a struggle with story of Hosea and Gomer. Why would God ask Hosea to marry what the King James version calls a Wonton woman? Then I read Frederick Buechner’s wonderful rendition of the story found in his book Peculiar Treasures.
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