2021 Lenten Devotional - Perfectly Wounded

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Day Seven // February 24 // Whatever is Right “Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.” – William Penn –

Liar. Four brutal letters. Letters that hurt and sting. Letters that unsettle. Letters that hit a little too close to home… because, ironically, they are true of each of us. We are liars. Not some of us. Not most of us. All of us. We are liars. Every day, we fib and fudge. Every day, we hedge – seduced by the alluring whispers of relativism. And for as much as we may try to deny it, I’m not talking about the way we talk. I’m thinking about the way we think. Every day, we lie because we lie to ourselves. Every day, in that subtle, thin-as-breath space between how we see life and how life really is, we go to work. We rearrange thoughts and ideas and memories to fit. Like oversized furniture in a too-small guest room, we angle, and we


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