Lenses – Susan Norris

What kind of lenses are you wearing?

How do you handle someone doing something wrong? Do you punish them? Do you call them out? Do you treat them differently? This morning, I read the following and was interested in your thoughts: In this African tribe, when someone does something harmful, they take the person to the center of the village where the whole tribe comes and surrounds them. At this point in the story, I fully expected the tribe to be like the Pharisees who brought the adulterous woman before Jesus ready to stone her to death [John 8:2-11]. What I discovered was completely different. For two [...]

Do you need new lenses?

Do you ever just have one of those days? You know, where everything seems to be going wrong. Today was the day. I woke up to a torrential downpour outside and the temperatures were substantially cooler than the past few days. I'm a spring/summer girl. I'd already gotten used to the nice short sleeve weather and sunshine, even though it had only been a few days. How does the song go? "Some days are diamonds, some days are stones..." I woke my daughter up and ventured downstairs to take care of the dog. As I was placing the dog's bowl before her [...]