I wrote this in my personal journal and wanted to share it here. I am going to redact the name of the book I was reading because this isn't a criticism of the book. I made a note of the book for my own future reference. It's also not about the book as I've read some good things in there and I'm only on page 27 or so. The thing is that I have heard stuff along these lines from pastors and others in the church. For me, this usually sounds like: put others before you and ignore yourself and your needs. As I share the Bible verses below, we are told to love our neighbor as ourselves. I left to go and read and was making notes on some things as in one instance, I made a note on the side that suppression is not good; lack of ease of expression is dis- ease as she was saying not to vent emotion. but there is something I disagreed with so strongly that I wrote “I disagree…” before the rest of the stuff and wanted to write here: God wants us to be sensitive to the...
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