A Tender Place That Says “Ouch”
Thank you to everyone who joined in on The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder in Story and Song on Monday. If you missed it on Monday, you can watch a recording of it here. For those of you who saw it on Monday, you will understand why I kept wanting to type in: “That’s my boy!”
John shared many good things about Laura and her family and a few — just a very few — negative ones. Not even Pa and Ma and their girls were perfect. Of course, we know that. That is why Jesus died!
I am so weary of character assassination in our media. I know that it isn’t new. The campaign between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson in 1800 was terrible. Still, I am weary of it.
I recently listened to another book about the life of Mr. Rogers. That kind man who worked hard to love his neighbor as himself and to treat children the way Jesus said we should treat them was a real target. Comedians had a heyday with his gentle manner. Some of their mimics were cruel. They hurt him deeply, though he responded the way Jesus told us to. He turned the other cheek.
I imagine that the politician who seems the most hardened on the outside has a tender place that says “ouch” when he or she is maligned. And, oh, it must be hard for their wives and husbands and mamas and daddies and children and brothers and sisters. We need to remember Jesus’ reaction when people brought a sinful woman to Him one day:
He . . . said to them,
“He who is without sin among you,
let him be the first
to throw a stone at her.”
John 8:7
