EPISODE · Feb 20, 2022 · 11 MIN

Break the Cycle

from Calling All Seekers · host Saint Thomas Episcopal Church

Feb 20, 2022 To those who are open to hearing Jesus, he calls upon us to respond to any evil done to us in a way that feels at once both counter-cultural and dangerous to self-preservation. Why would we do good to those who would not do the same for us?  How can that bring about transformational change, not just in us, but in the very people to whom we offer forgiveness instead of judgement? What example does Joseph, son of Jacob, provide for living into such a life of reconciliation and hope in Genesis 45:3-11, 15? What is one thing, however small, that you could do to show that you are open to disrupting the destructive cycles of hate that consume so much of this world by treating someone who may have hurt you as an equally beloved child of the same God?