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Meditations of the day

FineLinen

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FineLinen

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"When you say yes to God unconditionally, you have no idea how far this yes is going to take you. Certainly farther than you can guess and calculate beforehand... but just how far and in what form? At the same time, this yes is the sole, non-negotiable prerequisite of all Christian understanding, of all theology and ecclesial wisdom." -Hans Urs von Balthasar-
 

FineLinen

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“If God gave me His power, I’d make a lot of changes. But if He gave me His wisdom, I’d leave everything as it is.” -Chas. S. Peirce-

“It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.” -Charles Sanders Peirce
 

FineLinen

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"Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him." -Brennan Manning-

"When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit." -Brennan Manning-
 

FineLinen

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Oh! Lord, what am I to ask You?

At the root of my existence You are, fulfilling every longing of mine, taking care of me when I am lost in unconsciousness in deep sleep. You are my Mother and Father in One. Every time I am faced with the toughest challenge, when my faith in You trembled, You came to me and whispered Your silent Presence and I felt safe and secure in Your lap.
 

FineLinen

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"All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us." -Eugene H. Peterson-

"No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others." -Eugene H. Peterson-
 

FineLinen

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"What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a selfish person, life in death, unity in separation, God in the human and human in God and suffering as the form in which the incomprehensibility of God himself appears." -Brennan Manning-
 

FineLinen

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"Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable.

But with Easter, a way out becomes visible for human sorrows, an absolute future: more than a hope, a divine expectation. " -Hans Urs von Balthasar-
 

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"The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with." -Brennan Manning-

"I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in right relationship with my heavenly Father nor a sappy spirituality that portrays God as such a benign teddy bear that there is no aberrant behavior or desire of mine that he will not condone. I want a relationship with the Abba of Jesus, who is infinitely compassionate with my brokenness and at the same time an awesome, incomprehensible, and unwieldy Mystery." -Brennan Manning-
 
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FineLinen

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"The word 'christian' means different things to different people. To one person it means a stiff, upright, inflexible way of life, colorless and unbending. To another it means a risky, surprised-filled adventure, lived tiptoe at the edge of expectation...If we get our information from the biblical material, there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life." -Eugene H. Peterson-
 

FineLinen

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"To follow Jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us. To follow Jesus means picking up rhythms and ways of doing things that are often unsaid but always derivative from Jesus, formed by the influence of Jesus. To follow Jesus means that we can't separate what Jesus is saying from what Jesus is doing and the way that he is doing it. To follow Jesus is as much, or maybe even more, about feet as it is about ears and eyes" - Eugene H. Peterson-
 

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“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.” - Helen Keller-

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” - Helen Keller-
 

FineLinen

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“As far as I am concerned, anyone who hopes for the universal reconciliation of all creatures with God must already believe that this would be the best possible ending to the Christian story; and such a person has then no excuse for imagining that God could bring any but the best possible ending to pass without thereby being in some sense a failed creator.” - David Bentley Hart-

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FineLinen

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"It is from Christ that we are to learn how God relates himself to sin, suffering, evil, and death, it would seem that he provides us little evidence of anything other than a regal, relentless, and miraculous enmity; sin he forgives, suffering he heals, evil he casts out, and death he conquers." -David Bentley Hart-
 

FineLinen

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The immense difference that exists between hope and wishfulness is revealed in the remarks of a student who wrote:

"'I see hope as an attitude where everything stays open before me. Not that I don't think of my future in those moments, but I think of it in an entirely different way. Daring to stay open to whatever will come to me today, tomorrow, two months from now, or a year from now—that is hope. To go fearlessly into things without knowing how they'll turn out, to keep on going, even when something doesn't work the first time, to have trust in whatever you're doing—that is living with hope.” - Henri J.M. Nouwen-
 

FineLinen

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“When we live with hope we do not get tangled up with concerns for how our wishes will be fulfilled. So, too, our prayers are not directed toward the gift, but toward the one who gives it. Our prayers might still contain just as many desires, but ultimately it is not a question of having a wish come true but of expressing an unlimited faith in the giver of all good things. You wish that…but you hope in….” - Henri J.M. Nouwen-
 

FineLinen

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" I believe that it is impossible to set limits to the grace of God. I believe that not only in this world, but in any other world there may be, the grace of God is still effective, still operative, still at work. I do not believe that the operation of the grace of God is limited to this world. I believe that the grace of God is as wide as the universe." -Dr. Wm. Barclay-
 

FineLinen

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"God is not only King and Judge, God is Father – he is indeed Father more than anything else. No father could be happy while there were members of his family for ever in agony. No father would count it a triumph to obliterate the disobedient members of his family."

"The only triumph a father can know is to have all his family back home. The only victory love can enjoy is the day when its offer of love is answered by the return of love. The only possible final triumph is a universe loved by and in love with God." -Dr. Wm. Barclay-

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