Cairns Lutheran Parish

"An eye for an eye ... payback ... revenge: a dish best served cold." We say it with such a cold joy sometimes. Or maybe as Christians we tone down the language a bit. If we don't say it out loud, we think it. Having an enemy of one kind or another is common to us all. As Christians, we need to get a little more creative than simply biting people back when we feel hurt. More than this, wouldn't it be great to surprise people, catch them off guard, so that we can take a new and fresh approach as disciples and followers of Jesus? To be a disciple is to be creative in tough situations, prayerfully bringing our enemies - on the world scale - and our most intimate relationships to God, asking what they can't ask for themselves – for peace with God and each other. Who knows, perhaps they’ll even end up our friends!