Do
not be afraid, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are
mine. You are precious in my eyes because I have honored you and I love you…The
mountains may depart, the hills may be shaken, but my love for you will never
leave you and my covenant of peace will never be shaken. Isaiah 43:1, 4, Isaiah
54:10
Repent
and believe in the gospel, Jesus says. Turn around and believe the good news
that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and to believe in that good
news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of
all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen and come Lord
Jesus. Frederick Buechner
It’s funny that in all of this quiet I have no
words. Hour after hour I am quiet. I can hear the traffic on Broadway because
the back door is open, but other than that, it has been twelve hours and lots
of cups of water and nothing else particularly. Just quiet.
God
is asking of me, the unworthy, to forget my unworthiness and that of my
brothers and dare to advance in the love which has redeemed and renewed us all
in God’s likeness. And to laugh, after all, at the preposterous ideas of ‘worthiness.”
Thomas Merton
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