There once was a man who loved to wear his hoodie while waiting for the bus. However the bus would always come late, so he would tie his hoodie really tight around his face. One day a lady came up to him and said "you know man, you look pretty funny with that hood around your face. What would your mom say if she saw you looking so foolish?" The man replied "My mom bought this hoodie for me, and I think she would be perfectly happy if she knew I was happy wearing it the way I pleased.." The woman looked at him sarcastically, and said "If I had a son like you, who enjoyed looking so funny I don't think that I would be proud of him!" The man looked at her with a cheeky grin and said "Mom is that you?"
We are living in an age of brokenness, no matter what age you are, you probably have been touched with relationships falling apart, which causes more and more people to live in isolation. In this generation there is less of an incentive to heal and reconcile relationships, but that doesn’t excuse the amount of people who are broken. Why people don’t seem to be motivated to heal relationships is because our beliefs about faith and God have changed, really giving us less of an incentive to do what our religion says. If I act from my personal beliefs, but the person that I am responding to has abandoned religious beliefs, than the response to my wanting things to be better can be misinterpreted and rejected then by someone else. Generally when a society has expectations about broken relationships, loneliness and isolation, and the beliefs are generally accepted, society becomes a more compassionate society, because all value the same things. When religious values are undermined and ...
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