Meg Marie Wallace
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10/14/2025
If you desire to live well the message we say we believe,
it will show up most clearly in how we handle conflict.
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I’ve been thinking a lot about how easy it is to stop listening.
Not just to ideas we disagree with,
but to people —
to truth,
to love.
At some point, we all learn how to protect ourselves by closing our ears.
We stop leaning in.
We stop asking questions.
We stop imagining what it might feel like to stand where someone else stands, or experience what they have experienced.
And when that happens,
our hearts harden —
sometimes so subtly we don’t even notice, sometimes so quickly we cannot make sense of it.
Scripture calls us to something radically different.
To be people who “believe all things, hope all things, and endure all things.”
Basically, to believe the BEST about others,
even when it would be easier to assume the worst.
But that’s not usually what we do, is it?
We gossip instead of reaching out.
We cling to offense instead of seeking understanding.
We distance ourselves and call it discernment.
There’s a line I once read that equally melts and compels me:
“He does not seek to know; he does not try to imagine.
Instead, he paints the windshield, climbs into the back seat, and puts in his headphones.”
You can picture it right? You can likely think of those in your life that have not even tried to listen, much less give the benefit of the doubt.
But love, real love, doesn’t look away.
Love doesn’t cover the windshield.
Love leans in.
Love listens.
Love believes the best, hopes for the best, chooses what’s best.
I believe that’s what it means to follow Jesus —
to take out the headphones,
wipe off the paint,
and choose to face one another.
It looks like choosing curiosity over assumption,
compassion over gossip,
and love ABOVE all else.
Because if we’re not known for our love,
what are we even known for?
10/11/2025
“Do not take to heart all the things people say,
lest you hear your servant cursing you.
Your heart knows that many times
you yourself have cursed others.”
(Ecclesiastes 7:21–22)
It’s humbling, isn’t it?
How easily we become both the wounded and the wounding.
How quickly our words can become fetters —
chains that quickly bind us and those around us.
A few careless words, spoken in haste,
can spoil the beauty of something that once smelled like grace.
“Dead flies make the perfumer’s ointment give off a stench; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.”
(Ecclesiastes 10:1)
Gossip feels harmless...until it isn’t.
It usually starts small — a sigh, a rolled eye, an unkind comment, a shared frustration —
but it quickly sours the room.
Wisdom reminds us to get the dead flies out quickly...because...well, dead flies stink. Make the call, revisit the conversation…and make things right as soon as possible.
And what about when you’re the one being gossiped about?
When the rumor makes its way back to you
and your first instinct is to turn inward, run away, defend, or fight?
Ecclesiastes offers something better—it’s not easy…but it’s simple:
“If the anger of a ruler rises against you,
do not leave your place, for calmness will lay great offenses to rest.”
(Ecclesiastes 10:4)
What this is saying is don’t rush to prove your innocence.
Don’t match their tone, their energy, or their emotion. Don’t abandon your peace.
Stay…right where you are.
Let calmness, peace, and love — not reaction — be your defense.
Wisdom sometimes looks like choosing “Bethlehem”, choosing meekness, choosing softness…choosing forgiveness. It’s maintaining composure, being slow to anger, and resisting the temptation to retaliate.
The way of world would tell you to rise up, but the way of Christ invites us to let peace have the last word.
Let calmness be the fragrance that fills…and that is, no doubt, a much sweeter scent than dead flies.
Let love be the aim.
10/05/2025
Real compassion takes work.
A lot of it.
You can’t fake it with a quick emoji or a comment that sounds empathetic but costs you nothing.
You can’t merely send a Bible verse, or a quick catch phrase, and move on.
You can’t show up only when it’s convenient, comfortable, and well-lit.
No, real compassion is inconvenient.
It lingers when things get awkward.
It leans in when everyone else leans out.
It listens longer than it wants to,
asks questions instead of assuming answers,
and stays at the table when every instinct says,
“You don’t owe them anything.”
Because compassion isn’t just a feeling.
It’s a choice.
Just like love, because compassion IS love.
Love is a costly choice.
It costs time.
It costs comfort.
Sometimes it costs your pride.
But it’s the kind of cost Jesus never flinched at.
He knelt in the dirt beside the woman caught in adultery.
He wept with grieving sisters.
He touched the leper.
He drew near to the sick, the blind, the lame.
He forgave the ones crucifying Him.
Love didn’t just move Him emotionally.
It moved Him physically—toward pain, toward…people.
And if we’re following Him,
it will move us too.
Live the kind of Love that costs something. live the kind of Love that makes others confused.
That’s the kind that changes the world.
09/11/2025
When the air turns to lace and holy gets through, don’t rush to stitch it all back together.
Let the veil do its work.
The winnowing reveals what remains: faith, hope, love.
We aren’t fighting flesh and blood—and in Christ, we are not without hope.
While the window is open, speak Jesus.
Text the friend.
Tell your story.
Open Scripture.
Offer a meal and the gospel that saves.
Eyes up. Heart awake. Hope anchored in Jesus.
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