Our Saviour's Lutheran Church — Appleton WI

Blessed are the merciful, Jesus continues. Blessed are the ones who choose compassion over revenge, the ones who forgive when it is really hard, who refuse to let bitterness have the last word. That's the friend who keeps believing in someone who has disappointed them greatly. The parent who welcomes back a child who wandered for a spell. Mercy doesn't erase pain, but it refuses to let pain define what is to come.