Radical Love: Learning to Accept Yourself and Others

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Her pathway to forgiveness through giving talks made her discover that it was restorative justice she was doing – the restoration of her healing as a victim and the reformation of the offender.

Radical Love: Cherry Pie Picache’s pathway to forgiveness Radical Love: Cherry Pie Picache’s pathway to forgiveness

Such a beautifully vulnerable memoir about his struggle with mental health, depression and suicidal thoughts. I had no idea Zachary Levi struggled so much and it was so brave and affirming to listen to him talk about his very personal battles with happiness, family traumas and deciding to try medication (a step that I definitely feel a lot of us struggle with, myself included). Great on audio read by the author himself and HIGHLY recommended for anyone who's ever had mental health challenges (and I mean honestly, who among us hasn't after going through a pandemic!?!?). If that is true, then the command to love is implicitly also a command to set our minds on things that are above — all that God promises to be for us — not on things that are on the earth (Colossians 3:2). We also must interpret Jesus’ final command (6:30) in the same way. He does not mean that we should indiscriminately give money or goods to everyone who comes along and asks. Nor does He mean that it is wrong to hold people accountable for things they have borrowed from us. Biblical love seeks the highest good of the other person, and it is not seeking his highest good to foster his irresponsible behavior. As Leon Morris states, “If Christians took this one absolutely literally there would soon be a class of saintly paupers, owning nothing, and another of prosperous idlers and thieves” ( Luke [IVP/Eerdmans], p. 130). Rather, Jesus is confronting our greed and selfishness and encouraging us to be generous people. In all of these things, His radical love requires us to respond to wrongs with positive ministry toward the wrongdoer, not with retaliation or personal vengeance. Jesus sums this up in the next principle, known as “the golden rule”: i have been dealing with my own mental illness for almost a decade. i didn’t anticipate the breakthroughs i would have.

Radical love requires responding to wrongs with positive ministry toward the wrongdoer, not with retaliation (6:27-30). i loved that it read like zac was sitting there casually telling just another story. his personality came through the informal style of writing. i loved it. it made the heavy parts lighter.

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This type of love is unmotivated by the possibility of reciprocation or reward. Its ultimate purpose is selflessness, compassion, understanding, and gratitude. It’s the kind of love that can be felt for all of humankind and everything on earth from a perspective of interconnectedness and interdependence. So again, Jesus confronts our selfishness, because to obey this principle we must think of others and not of ourselves. How will the other person feel? How would I feel if I were in his place? A New Year’s resolution read, “Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these yourself.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow observed, “If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.” Nevertheless, when the actress’s faith went through a tough test following the incident, it was by that line from the Lord’s Prayer she found the glimmer of light. I never imagined Cherry Pie to have that in her heart because I know I don’t. It must take a tremendous amount of thought, emotions, and love of God to be able to do that.” Michael Flores in disbelief of Pie’s bold move in an enlightening perspective of coming to terms with her grief In reading mystical love poetry of this tradition, it is hard to determine whether a particular poem is meant for a tender young beloved, for the writer's husband or wife, for a spiritual teacher, for the Prophet Muhammad, or for God. The truth of the matter is that it is typically written for all of them, and all at once."This stunning collection showcases the love poetry and mystical teachings at the heart of the Islamic tradition in accurate and poetic original translations

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Based on real people and real events we’re guided through the story but a completely unreliable narrator. John is a liar, he omits things, forgets to tell you stuff then ‘remembers’ later in the story. But I liked him. I felt sad for him, he falls in love and it consumes him. He makes bad decisions but when we learn about his childhood we can see why he is so flawed.How can we tell when our love is fostering the other person’s irresponsibility? Is it possible to “love too much”? Omid Safi is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he specializes on Islamic mysticism (Sufism), contemporary Islamic thought, and medieval Islamic history. He received his PhD from Duke University in 2000. Before coming to UNC, he was an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. I still sin and fail Him every day. I realized how can I possibly ask for forgiveness when I cannot forgive and when there’s so much pain and hatred in my heart?” Pie said. There are relatable illustrations of radical love depicted by most major religions in some form or another. From the Judeo-Christian tradition to Islam to Eastern religious practices such as Buddhism, the concept of radical love is encouraged by each. It’s the type of love that’s exemplified in stories about major figures in these religions, too: Abraham of the Old Testament, Jesus of the New Testament, the prophet of the Quran, and Siddhartha of Buddhism. Radical love is the ultimate expression of wholeness and contentment and is thought of by many as the truest form of love in existence. What Radical Love Is Not I'm very happy to know he got help, knows that mental health is something that can't be "cured", and continues to get help when needed. I love that he advocates for Mental Health on his social media and as an ambassador for the Active Minds, a non-profit, young adult mental health advocacy program.