Cut Nails, not Fingers! by Petra Pierre - Robertson
This week's blog is based on my reflection on two pieces of writing that came at me yesterday and today: A Facebook memory and my morning devotional. Yesterday, (Dec 6, 2020), Facebook reminded me of a post I shared 5 years ago (2015) from Pinterest: When nails grow long we cut nails, not fingers. Similarly, when misunderstandings grow up, cut your ego, not your relationship. Ironically, my devotional reading this morning (December 7, 2020), entitled “Divisiveness” from ‘Covered with His Righteousness’ by L. Eloy Wade O. (p. 349 IAD 2010), built on that memory. I confess, yes, I keep all my devotionals from yesteryears! According to Wade, evil spreads division and separation. Evil causes humans to separate themselves from God then from each other. This was witnessed after war when the following countries split into two: Vietnam, Africa, China, Germany, Berlin, Czechoslovakia and Korea. He went on to shrewdly outline ongoing divisions in humanity between rich and poor, black