I use twist ties for lots of things–bread bags, computer wires that snake across my office, organizing loose keys, and so forth.

And, unfortunately, I sometimes treat people a bit like twist-ties, looking mostly for what makes them useful.

Yett in my more spiritual moments I remember that people aren’t things. I need to love people, and focus my “using” on things that are, uhh, just things.

Paul said “I will gladly spend and be spent for you” I need to be more like that.

John 13:35
Dave “Tud” Nance

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I’ve experienced disaster. Sometimes it’s impersonal, as with hurricanes, tornados, floods and the election of politicians I believe are corrupt.

Sometimes it’s very personal: Death. Illness. Being fired.

But I absolutely must remember Jesus’s redemption promise!

He not only gives me strength to endure these tests. He gives me the deep-down promise that these aren’t merely tests—they are God’s tools for my redemption and spiritual growth.

Is there any other way to reflect on the cross? A disaster of galactic proportions. God’s tool for goodness and redemption!

Hope to me. To you. To everyone.

Revelation 14:13
Dave “Tud” Nance

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