Ukrainian compassion and strength is what the world needs now.
Love sweet love. Not weak love.
Strong love.
Be perfect in love even with your enemies.
Here’s a smart way to put the fire out of attack.
Don’t incite enemies with revenge.
Show mercy even as you defend yourself. Show mercy with strength.
This Russian soldier surrendered and was treated with a hot sandwich and hot tea.
Then, the Ukrainian soldier calls and allows him to speak to his mother.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven.” Matthew 5:43-45
Could this be the key to ending the war? Compassionate strength?
Putin, on the other hand, has sealed the title, Despot of the 21st Century.
His slaughter of countless children and other civilians in Ukraine, many of who are Russian-born, will crush the soul and spirit of his own countrymen and women.
But, Ukraine benefits with compassion from every corner of the world.
Surely, this emboldens soldiers to fight gallantly in the last stand for their . . .
- country
- home
- family
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” Nelson Mandela
This war will end when all that is good, whole and strong unites with Ukraine to topple the evil in power.
How do you think the war will end?
For the life of me, I cannot understand what Putin’s goal/end-game is (?) – For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole [destroyed] world (Ukraine) and [totally] lose/[ignore, the Ukrainian people’s] soul?
Point well made Jeff! I don’t think Putin weighed the magnitude of the losses for himself or his nation.