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A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart [SSL 214]

❄️ January Series – 2022 ❄️

This is my final installation in for the January 2022 Series on “Strength to Love” by Martin Luther King Jr.

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Series Contributions

• The Man Who was a Fool
https://musingsfromabrokenheart.substack.com/p/the-man-who-was-a-fool

• A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart:
episode

Our God is Able: https://musingsfromabrokenheart.substack.com/p/our-god-is-able

Connecting with Lisa

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writing: sparkmymuse.substack.com

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Series Contributions

Non-violence

https://sparkmymuse.substack.com/p/strength-to-love-on-non-violence

Loving your enemies

https://sparkmymuse.substack.com/p/loving-your-enemies-strength-to-love

Dangerous altruism

https://sparkmymuse.substack.com/p/dangerous-altruism

A tough mind and a tender heart

https://lisadelay.com/blog/blog/a-tough-mind-and-a-tender-heart-ssl-214

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Eps 101: How Racism Came to America, Guest Dr Kendi

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Today my guest is award-winning author and historian Dr Ibram Kendi. He is the 2016 winner of the National Book Award for non fiction and the youngest winner ever in that category. At the time of this interview, he was teaching at the University of Florida, and weeks later became Professor of History and International Relations and the Founding Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University.

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Like Jael, I got you so pegged

Don’t be tempted to …ahem… peg Jael as the Biblical forerunner of the fierce “Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling”. She was a nobody who cared for sheep and endured the harsh elements.

As a tent dweller of the Kenite clan, she was riffraff to the nth degree. (The spiffy clothing you may see her depicted in is just wishful thinking. A bath would be hard to come by, let alone silk fineries, and dainty hairstyling.)

The Biblical story of Jael is hardcore violence! (10 sec read here)

So-NEVER doubt this, Jael is one shrewd and formidable female; and she clobbers an expert of war, with her own violence, as a part of God’s plan.

She’s sharp, very sharp.

3318589975420214389 — Here lies the mighty Warrior, Sisera…almost pinned down.

Could this be one instance (of many) where a Bible story may effect an impressionable mind?

Perhaps envision the scene following a Bible study at a female penitentiary … “Yo, ladies, are you ready to get your Jael on!? Wooo…” Okay, maybe not. But, I can totally see a Bible inspired video game for Christian families….rated T for Teen (of course)… that includes this scene. The object would be to get in the most spike poundings before the warrior wakes up. That’s completely obvious, right?

Incidentally, this story also proves how brilliantly somniferous warm milk can be. Note to self.

Most importantly, this story begs us to root for Jael, and everyone like her. She’s an impoverished foreigner. A diminutive herding woman. And she triumphs in a crucial battle to save a whole nation. Underdog doesn’t begin to describe her.

This isn’t just an astonishing battle tale, or reversal of fortune story, it’s a message of hope for all of us up against the odds. God gives us the strength to peg and conquer our obstacles. God’s character is shown in this and the many underdog stories in the Bible.

Literarily unheard of, this story is like no other. No other ancient literature in the world included women very much, let alone wrote them up as full- blown heroines. But, God captures his heart for us within this story of an unlikely woman who saves an entire people group from destruction.

Remember this:
Undoubtably, you have God’s camaraderie when the odds are against you, or when your foes or circumstance seems too great to overcome.

God has mercy for your “type,” and it is his joy to help you prevail. Keep your hope in the Lord, the Almighty King.

Do you ever feel like an underdog?
What would you like to pin and conquer?

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