#merciful — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #merciful, aggregated by home.social.
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✒️ Ottoman Calligraphic Wall Panel, 19th Century "The #merciful are shown mercy by the Most Merciful. Be merciful to those on the earth and the One above the heavens will have mercy on you." [Prophet (ﷺ)]
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Following up (sort of?) on this, we’re reading The Four #VisionQuests of #Jesus by #StevenCharleston as an interlude book in #EfM this week. I’ve found it to be a fascinating read that truly speaks to me (which makes me uncomfortable because I am a product of the #WASP culture that has all but eliminated the #NativeAmerican & #FirstNations people from this continent & I can’t help wondering if this is some kind of cultural appropriation on my part).
I’m in #TheWilderness chapter & the comments regarding self & #Community are particularly striking. Especially since community seems to be in short supply these days. When we forget to be #generous & #merciful we stop being a community. Our #faith & identity suffers. Native Americans know this. “Losing the ‘we’ to only become an ‘I’ was worse than death. It meant becoming a non-human. It was to be consigned to an eternal limbo from which there was no escape in either life or death.” (p. 102) Is this where we are headed?
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Following up (sort of?) on this, we’re reading The Four #VisionQuests of #Jesus by #StevenCharleston as an interlude book in #EfM this week. I’ve found it to be a fascinating read that truly speaks to me (which makes me uncomfortable because I am a product of the #WASP culture that has all but eliminated the #NativeAmerican & #FirstNations people from this continent & I can’t help wondering if this is some kind of cultural appropriation on my part).
I’m in #TheWilderness chapter & the comments regarding self & #Community are particularly striking. Especially since community seems to be in short supply these days. When we forget to be #generous & #merciful we stop being a community. Our #faith & identity suffers. Native Americans know this. “Losing the ‘we’ to only become an ‘I’ was worse than death. It meant becoming a non-human. It was to be consigned to an eternal limbo from which there was no escape in either life or death.” (p. 102) Is this where we are headed?
