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This week has been a very busy one as Andrew and I prepare to transition to Guatemala for a month for language training.   This week has been one of wrestling through this idea of what it means to love, and more than that, what is a biblical definition of hate? 1 John 1 contrasts light and dark, as well as love and hate.   vv. 9-11 read, “Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness.   Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.   But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.” God has been teaching me a lot about His love for a couple years now.   These instructions have come through the picture of a shepherd affectionately caring for, and intimately knowing his sheep.   They have come through sun shadow hearts on trees, and recognizing more intimately that Jesus died i

This week was a bit of a blur, as Andrew and I had friends visiting on a vision trip.   I kept up pretty consistently with reading and studying, but have felt the weariness in my heart that comes after a long week of sleep deprivation and lack of consistency in all areas. So, this week I didn’t really have anything new and fresh from 1 John.   On Saturday night, I drug out my Sunday School materials because I was slotted to teach, and begrudgingly began reading the lesson and preparing to teach the CMA Chapel kids. That is what I want to share with you (Ironically, there was a mix-up in communication and I didn’t even end up teaching, HA!   God has a sense of humor). So, the lesson walked through Numbers 13-14, and was about the twelve spies who went into the Promised Land.   If you grew up in church, you know this story.   10 said “No”, two said, “Go, giant grapes… all of that.   As I prepared, I thought about the typical angle taken when this lesson is taught.   T