Yesterday, I received a message that stayed with me.
It was about a post on my Whatsaap status, I made featuring a baby with Down syndrome. The concern was that it was “not appropriate” and that I should focus more on reading the Bible instead of posts like that.
And I just sat with it.
Because it raised a deeper question for me.
When did awareness become a lack of faith?
When did empathy start looking like something wrong?
We often rush to correct what we don’t fully understand. We attach spiritual meaning to things that are simply human experiences. And in doing that, we sometimes lose sight of compassion.
But my understanding of faith has never removed empathy from the picture. If anything, it should deepen it.
“I may not understand this fully, but this is still a human being in front of me.”
That is where I always want to start from.
Not judgment.
Not assumptions.
Not superiority.
Just humanity.
Should there be limits to what we engage with as Christians online?
Or have we blurred the line between conviction and judgment?
“I may not understand this fully, but this is still a human being in front of me.”
That’s where I usually start from.
But I’d genuinely like to hear different perspectives on this.
Because the way we treat people in their most vulnerable moments says a lot more about us than the labels we place on them.
With love,
Florence 💕
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