We must #NeverForget. As a Christian, I find myself embarrassed and ashamed by the mixed historical record Christian churches have had when it comes to standing against antisemitism. We have not always loved our Jewish brothers and sisters. We missed opportunities to help Jews fleeing Nazi Germany, and some of our denominations embraced a theory that God had rejected his chosen people and replaced them with the church. I’m glad most Christians are beyond that. The Christians I know feel a strong kinship with the Jewish people and we stand against antisemitism in its various forms. #Israel #antisemitism #Holocaust
I’m reading the love scriptures today. What is love and how do we know when it is flourishing in our lives?
Here’s a very special and appropriate scripture for today.
“You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely.
You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”
even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together ...
