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Thursday, April 25th, 2024
the Fourth Week after Easter
the Fourth Week after Easter
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The Bent-Knee Time
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RARE DIPLOMACY
Genesis 43:26-34
Never was diplomacy—love’s wooing, winning diplomacy—sent on a harder mission than when Joseph set out to do—what? Be willing to forgive his brothers’ terrible conduct toward himself? No, no; something far different: to make them really broken-hearted to think they should have treated him so. This explains all his rarely keen, subtly shrewd —yet always loving and honest—handling of them, from first to last. This sets the standard for real, full forgiveness.
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