A Case for Love and Grace

Dear Fellow Christian,

I don't get you and me. I don't get why I am the way I am and why you are the way you are and how it sometimes seems impossible for us to agree. I don't want to carry disagreements around with me. I don't want to hold onto this stubborn need to be right. I don't want to passify you by nodding my head at whatever you believe is true and right, whether I agree or not. I don't want confrontation. I don't want to quote a verse to you, nor do I want you to quote a verse to me.

We're playing war with one another when there are real people dying around us. Why?

...I guess we could fight this war as a team. You could stay here, I could go over there and we could battle this darkness together instead of firing at one another.

We could choose to land on the side of love. We could agree to land on the side of grace. Jesus made what's really important for us to agree on pretty simple: love God and love everybody else. If we can agree on that, it should be more than enough to get us through. What do you think? At the end of time, we're both going to stand completely innocent in the sight of God anyway; Christ will be standing in front of us at the judgement. We'll forget why any of this seemed so important and why it weighed so heavily on our souls. We'll dance together and admire each other's mansions, so happy for one another. It's hard to imagine, but we could give it a try.

If there's any way for us to find victory over this on this side of heaven, let's find it. I guess Christ's death and ressurection makes a pretty good case for us battling, using only the weapons of love and grace.