August 14 – Making Things Right

Corey opens on a question that reframes the whole week: am I a demonstration of what God can do, or am I the guy doing ninety-five down the interstate with the recovery sticker on my bumper? He works through Colossians' instruction to work at everything as though for the Lord rather than for people, gets honest about the line "there is no favoritism" — he'd rather liked thinking he was the favorite — and describes the moment an amends stopped being theoretical: looking someone in the face, naming things she never knew, and watching what that does to a person. Paris brings the practical side back to sweeping his own side of the street, with a memory of an old man who walked the neighborhood picking up trash for no reason anyone could see. Pastor Mike takes it to the plank and the speck from Matthew 7, and makes the case that we stop noticing our own plank because we've spent a lifetime looking around it — the speck across the room is always easier to spot. Along the way, a running attempt to needle Corey with wall slogans, a passage from page 61 read with his name plugged in, and a reminder that once love gets inserted into a situation, the anger and fear have nowhere left to stand.

The stone for today: Peace comes not from what others do for me, but from doing what is mine to do before God.

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