Wasp or Butterfly?

My beautiful daughter and her beautiful family

“For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ But if you are always biting and devouring one another, watch out! Beware of destroying one another.” (Gal. 5:14-15)

            My extraordinary daughter gives the Lord all the credit for the clever way she’s teaching her children to be slow to speak, slow to anger (James 1:19), and to interact with respect and kindness. Her brilliant strategy: she asks them the simple question, “Do you want to be a wasp or a butterfly?”

            It greatly saddens me that, over the past few years, derogatory, untrue remarks have been spoken about my church. What disturbs me even more than the criticism is the source of the disparagement: Christians, my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ!

            I’d just like to say one thing to these backbiters, “Do you want to be a wasp or a butterfly!?! 
And...I love you." J

                       “Encourage one another and build each other up!” (1 Thess. 5:11) 

                         “Be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, 

                             just as God through Christ has forgiven you.” (Eph. 4:32)


"Before you are tempted to criticize or oppose something that looks different from your past experience, ask God for wisdom and discernment. Examine why you might be tempted to oppose it. The Lord cannot be put in a box. He delights in doing things in ways that may not fit our former paradigms." 
                                                                                                                          - Oz Hillman of TGIF