[Peter Debelak]

The progression/momentum here aches me. How do we keep doing this to/with each other, year after year, decade after decade?

We don't disagree about the fundamentals of our shared faith and hope in Christ. How do our "convictions" about this or that end up in an inability to talk to each other? Of course, each one of us will point to what "the other one" did. But that's the same claim of everyone involved in a dispute of faith - including the RCC, the LC and myself. In response to that, most of us will say, "The difference is, I happen to be RIGHT!" And so it goes, on and on... So how do we stop it? How often, despite genuine conviction, are we able to "turn the other cheek"?

I like both my cloak and my tunic. What must transpire before I can be willing to give them both up?

Really, how do we stop this?

There's going to be a hundred more "LSMs" created by each one of us, in different ways, before we finally get to the root of the problem, if we ever do. Will we just let that future history play out and sort itself out down the line? I pray that we don't.

In Love,

Peter