Luke 20:11 · World English Bible
Luke 20:11 Meaning He Sent Yet Another Servant
He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
What does Luke 20:11 mean?
Love does not stop calling because it was once refused. Again the gentle messenger comes, and again the mind that fears the reckoning meets it with contempt, adding insult now to the injury.
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Love does not stop calling because it was once refused. Again the gentle messenger comes, and again the mind that fears the reckoning meets it with contempt, adding insult now to the injury. Each reminder is treated more harshly than the last, for guilt grows bolder the longer it goes unquestioned, and a mind practiced in refusal learns to enjoy its cruelty.
Yet the patience that keeps sending is itself the teaching. However shamefully the call is met, it returns, because love cannot be exhausted by attack. The mind is shown, in the very repetition, that what it strikes at will not strike back and cannot be driven away.
Servant: the returning call to remember, love's patience that will not cease though it is refused again and again. Husbandmen: the mind's defenders of false ownership, grown bolder in cruelty the longer their guilt is left unexamined.
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Live Luke 20:11 today
- Think of the person you have written off, the one you have stopped reaching out to because the last few tries went badly. Send the plain message anyway, with nothing in it that scores a point.
- When someone in your house or at your desk is short with you today, answer in your normal voice. The one small refusal to escalate is the whole practice.
- If a reply in a thread is sharper than it needed to be, let it pass without matching it. You can be unmoved without being cold.
Who have I stopped being patient with, and what would one more unhurried attempt cost me?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching
Water asks nothing, yields to everything, and wears down stone. What cannot be exhausted does not need to strike back.
Buddhism · Dhammapada
Hatred has never once been ended by hatred. Only the one who stops returning the blow ends anything.
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
The best answer to unkindness is to stay kind. Their cruelty is their own wound, and you are not required to catch it.
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