During that vacation, in two final conversations with my grandmother before her death, when words were hard and fraught, I found comfort in the words of Jesus. In the gospels, Jesus teaches us by his own example to pray. But he doesn't leave us there. He also teaches us how to pray. And then, as if knowing that sometimes prayer is just too much: he gives us words to pray. Words that can carry us.
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Jesus doesn’t choose his travel plans on accident. He takes the way through Samaria, the way others avoided.
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Perhaps Jesus knows there's no better way to teach than by example. When he shows us how we can grow and transcend our human biases, his example turns out to be quite surprising.
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Jesus famously teaches his followers not to condemn. But this teaching goes further. Jesus invites us to learn what keeps us from seeing ourselves and our world as it truly is.
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Jesus challenges his disciples not to retaliate--not even when slapped, sued or commandeered. But Jesus does not make his disciples into doormats. Something else is going on, something easy to miss and life-changing to embrace.
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