How is your heart doing at this very moment, at this breath?
a tale of two brothers
anger is powerful, and not easily tamed
patience
makro-thumos
to set anger far away (time/distance)
a tale of heartbreak
“Leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them.” “Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster on your people.” [the Lord relented]
What is God like?
The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.
The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.
long-suffering
a tale of fish and forgiveness
“Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.” [God relented] To Jonah this seemed very wrong, and he became angry. He prayed to the Lord: “Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity.”
a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left
living toward wholeness while things are not well
a tale of one-directional patience
we have been given time and space so we might return and give one another time and space to return as well
How is your heart doing at this very moment, at this breath?