Sermons From Good Shepherd Lutheran Church In Raleigh, Nc

Gospel - Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 Compassion can help us live from Rumi's field right in the middle of the brokenness and complications of daily life, in the middle of the reality of the news, in the middle of the reality of bad decisions and immorality and disaster. Compassion helps us to see our relationships first, to see the imago dei - the image of God - in each other, no matter how wrong we happen to be in the moment. Compassion helps us to see past our guilt and shame and ignorance and selfishness to the place where our souls are the same. Compassion sees the pain underneath the sins. It sees past the drama to who we are, and it opens us up with love.