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Let’s Change a Million Hearts This Year, or Maybe Just One, or Maybe Just Ours

Let’s Change a Million Hearts This Year, or Maybe Just One, or Maybe Just Ours

Last updated on: January 5, 2015 at 11:15 am by Susan Cottrell

Let’s Change a Million Hearts This Year, or Maybe Just One, or Maybe Just Ours 2015-01-05T11:15:23-05:00 Susan Cottrell

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It’s a new year. Want to change the world with me? Let’s try something this year.

This is Rob, Susan’s husband writing today…

Where there is hatred, let’s love. Where there is injury, let’s just forgive. Where there is doubt, let’s be the ones with faith.

Where there is despair, bring hope. Where there is darkness, we can be light. Where there is sadness, joy.

Where there is condemnation, let’s show unconditional grace. Where there is rejection, let’s accept without reservation.

Let’s give up the desire to be right. Let’s seek to win someone’s heart.

Instead of putting people — and God too — in a box with man-made labels, let’s rejoice in the gorgeous kaleidoscope of our differences and open ourselves to the surprising truths and wonderful messiness of knowing God.

Let’s seek to console and understand, before we seek to be consoled and understood.

And let us love before we ever seek to be loved.

Am I naive and is this just silly or simplistic? Maybe, but what the heck, let’s try it for a year.

Will we love too much, accept too much, affirm too much, show too much grace, give too much forgiveness??

Come on, let’s just go for it. Who knows… we might just change the world. Or a single heart. Or a million hearts.

Or maybe the only heart that will be changed will be our own.

Whatever happens, it will be change for the better. : )

Have a wonderful, magical, blessed, messy, loving new year!

– Rob

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