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Don’t Be Pressured To Celebrate
Shake the dust off your feet…
True Family is loyal and faithful over any ideal or dogma
Depart from those who devalue us and/or abuse us.
Jesus adjures us NOT to stay in unwelcoming or harmful situations. It’s a short verse in Matthew. But, the verse speaks to me with so much more than those few words say.
CEB Matthew 10:14 If anyone refuses to welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet as you leave that house or city.
While the above verse is specifically about sharing our faith, for me, it tells us to depart from those who would not accept us. God does not expect us to stay among those who devalue us and/or abuse us. The scripture verse doesn’t tell us to stop loving people because love doesn’t work that way.
Love is unconditional. But, that verse and the passages that follow tell us not to stay in an environment of abuse or devaluing by others. It admonishes us to separate…