Conviction

I have a word about how to approach people. The way Jesus did it was never to attack the person. It was to allow the person to feel the conviction from within. Emphasis on allow. We don't judge, we let the judge come from inside and enable them a softened heart. Let them convict themselves and let the conviction come from within. These are sometime best done in parables, if we had a grand mother who loved us and cherished us did we ever want to disappoint her and swear in her presence? Did we ever want to speak an evil word about her while she wasn't around? With that in mind could you imagine the person you may talk about as a grandmother some day, withered in age and love? The gentleness of love coming from from within. And renewing the heart. We might not have a grandmother, but some of us a cherished elder companion. When we see their face in our imagination, is there anything inside you that would want to hurt that person? Imagine a person you're about to engage with or discuss, the same as the cherished companion. They're not your enemy, they're you're best friend and they don't even know it. You approach with the meekness of God, and bring their heart to bare upon their own sorrow or joy for who they were. The perspective is always to allow another to convict the self and fall upon the cross within their own internalization. The softening of a heart by it's own inner turmoil. The word cuts best when it's love shows us the innermost self from the most humbling experience. A smell, an adventure, a story, an experience laid bare. We're trying to enable their heart to search out the person under the facade withing it's own depths. The seed within the core of a person, the roots undarkened by the bad soil.