What you sow, you reap

Tuesday September 26th, James 3: 17-18 Real wisdom, God's wisdom, begins with a holy life and is characterized by getting along with others. It is gentle and reasonable, overflowing with mercy and blessings, not hot one day and cold the next, not two-faced. You can develop a healthy, robust community that lives right with God and enjoy its results only if you do the hard work of getting along with each other, treating each other with dignity and honor. Getting along is hard work. Sometimes it just seems easier to fight. When we work at getting along, treating others with dignity and honor, we don’t always get our way. But then what we do get is closer to God’s way. Hugo Chavez just gave five million for fuel relief in western Alaska, for the most part, those receiving the aid look beyond the politics and are thankful for the help. We have spent hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of lives trying to force our way in the mid-east and things seem to be getting worse every day. Perhaps we should have tried the dignity and honor thing, maybe we would get a little dignity and honor in return.