☘Misericordia☘ ⚡ϟ⚡⛈⚡☁ ❇️❤❣'s Reviews > How to Human: Three Ways to Share Life Beyond What Distracts, Divides, and Disconnects Us

I think this guys's one of the rare-ish people who got about as many (or maybe more? or maybe not) different and diverse cultures stacked upon other cultures in his heritage.

What I didn't like was how he praised Jesus about being unopologetically Jewish... Seriously, man, they had different hangups at that time. Like, being crucified or needing to develop Christianity from scratch. Totally different scale of stuff. They didn't have time to be apologetic. And... uh, being Jewish in Roman empire was radically different from being (Jewish) anywhere today.

Okay, this is weird, you know? Today I purchased a most wonderful icon of Lazarus' being resurrected. And, tadam (!), I'm finishing reading a book, this book, that I started earlier but left unfinished and it refers to what? To Lazarus being resurrected by Jesus! Holy sinchronicity!

I was probably too harsh with my initial rating of this book and upping it now. Hail Jesus and Lazarus and Martha and Mary and everyone else!

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When Mary asked Jesus to do it, He kind of lips off to her. Look! He does! “Woman, why do you involve me?” (verse 4, niv). He seems a bit put off, but it’s His mom. And, of course, He does what she asks even after a little bit of attitude. Nobody ever said Jesus never had attitude. And I love how Mary takes His words and turns to the servants and, like what I would imagine an Italian mother saying, she says, “Do whatever he tells you” (verse 5, niv). (I hope you read that with an Italian accent.) So, it says that Jesus asked them to fill the thirty water jugs—thirty!—with water. And it says that “they filled them to the brim” (verse 7, niv, emphasis added). This is an important detail. So let’s do the math.
There were 6 jars of 30 gallons each. That equals 180 gallons, which would be 682 liters, which would be the equivalent of 908 bottles of wine.Nine hundred and eight bottles of wine.
That seems preposterous. Who does that? Who gives above and beyond what anyone is expecting? No way they can drink that.
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But, my friend, this is how to human. This is how we are supposed to give: above and beyond. And that’s why when people see this sort of love in action, it changes their entire lives—not because of the gift, but because of seeing the giver give. It’s a whole vibe. (c)
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We died laughing. It felt so good.
That love felt like freedom. (c)
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You see, this ridiculous generosity thing? It not only frees someone else, but it frees you. Something unlocked in my heart that night, and I wasn’t going to throw away the key. I just didn’t know who I was gonna give it to next, nor did I know how much they would need it too. (c)
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Jesus knew He was gonna raise Lazarus from the dead. So why in the world did He weep? Why in the world did He expel emotion from His eyeballs when He knew the outcome? It’s because of empathy.
You see, Jesus wasn’t weeping because He was sad that Lazarus was dead. No, Jesus was sad because Mary and Martha were sad.
Jesus wept for them, not for Lazarus.
Jesus had empathy.
Jesus knew that in a matter of minutes, Lazarus was gonna come dancing out of that grave. He would have had every right to look at those mourning and roll His eyes, because their pain was gonna last for only a few more minutes. It was so temporary.
But Jesus didn’t give those who mourned a speech to try to talk them out of their grief. He didn’t give them data that proved they were really grieving for no reason. He didn’t make them feel small for their lack of faith.
Jesus simply saw people hurting, and it made Him hurt as well. He empathized so much with those who mourned that it made Him weep. (c)