It's said that "into each life a little rain must fall." And it's so true. There is no life that doesn't involve loss, and there's no love that doesn't involve grief; in fact, as Valerie Kaur says in "See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love," grief is the price of love. And grieving together--compassion--is a choice that creates a larger, transformational "we." So we have to ask: Are we willing to sit in the rain with one another, for love? (Matthew 23:37-39)
This is Part 2 of a 9-part series this fall putting Valarie Kaur's See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love in conversation with Gospel stories of Jesus.
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