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Jon Cutchins's avatar

Thats horrible. I'm sorry. It will always be a part of you but I read some of your substack and you are funny and bright and interesting, and I wanted to say that however bad that was it is not all of who you are. I enjoyed your observations about human nature.

I'm not sure if the poster who sorta brushed you off was a jerk or not paying attention or thought that what they were doing was important enough to make running over you ok, wait that's the same thing as a jerk isn't it? But anything that is built by treating the Lord's children callously is not worth building.

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Angus McPherson's avatar

This chain is very kind of you. I will say that I am not one of the lord's children, can't be. No true parent would treat or allow their child to be treated in that way. So they are excused of that infraction.

By the way, I dont' think the person was a jerk. I'm not sure what motivated the comment exactly, but the language is full of certainty, while there is not one square inch of me that doesn't live in a cloud of uncertainty.

As you indicated in a previous, we are all the walking wounded. Including the poster who admonished me. There is a wound there for sure I'm guessing. It reminds me of the words attributed to Scotsman John Watson “Be kind. Everyone you meet is carrying a heavy burden.”

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Jon Cutchins's avatar

Well the broken are my calling. What is not my calling is to defend God. The divine artist likes to paint dark scenes. There may be this reason or that but anybody that can't see that isn't looking. What I can tell you is that the Father treated the beloved Son, the Son that we know he loved in some pretty awful ways and that Son continued to believe in His Father, although His faith was pretty muddled at times too.

https://comfortwithtruth.substack.com/p/the-cross-considered-as-revelation

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