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I once saw God’s mercy as patient, benevolent tolerance, a kind of grudging forgiveness, but now mercy has become for me God’s very self-understanding , a loving allowing, a willing breaking of the rules by the One who made the rules—a wink and a smile, a firm and joyful taking of our hand while we clutch at our sins and gaze at God in desire and... See more
Richard Rohr • Receiving God’s Mercy
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Am I still trying to clothe what God is doing now with what worked back when it first began? Or am I making space for the growth of the gift?
Read 1 Samuel 2:18
It is passages like this one from the prophet Micah that reveal how much Jesus was a Jew, knew the Hebrew Scriptures, and was deeply formed by them. If we do not fully appreciate this fact, then we try to know the human text (Jesus) outside of the clear and total context (post-exilic Judaism). Then the message is neither clear nor compelling. How
... See moreRichard Rohr • Wondrous Encounters : Scripture for Lent
Maybe it’s not about reinventing everything.
Maybe it’s about returning — with a different heart.
Not because it makes sense. But because He said so.
'Simon answered, “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets.” ' — Luke 5:5