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Kyrie

“Jesus not only knows what hurts us, but knowing, seeks us out. Whatever our poverty, whatever our pain, his plea to his people is ‘Come now, wounded, frightened, angry, lonely, empty, and I’ll meet you where you live. And I’ll love you as you are, not as you should be, because you’re never gonna be as you should be.’ Do you really believe this?”

“With all the wrong turns you made in your past, all the mistakes, the moments of selfishness, dishonesty, and degraded love, do you really believe that Jesus Christ loves YOU — not the person next to you, not the church, not the world, but that he loves YOU beyond worthiness and unworthiness, beyond fidelity and infidelity… no matter what’s gone down, he can’t stop loving you. This is the Jesus of the Gospels.”

– Brennan Manning

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Sacred Path II

 Lord, high and holy, meek and lowly,

Thou has brought me to the valley of vision,

where I live in the depths but see thee in the heights;

hemmed in by mountains of sin I behold Thy glory.

Let me learn by paradox

that the way down is the way up,

that to be low is to be high,

that the broken heart is the healed heart,

that the contrite spirit is the rejoicing spirit,

that the repenting soul is the victorious soul,

that to have nothing is to possess all,

that to bear the cross is to wear the crown,

that to give is to receive,

that the valley is the place of vision.

Lord, in the daytime stars can be seen from deepest wells,

deepest wells,

and the deeper the wells the brighter

Thy stars shine;

Let me find Thy light in my darkness,

Thy life in my death,

Thy joy in my sorrow,

Thy grace in my sin,

Thy riches in my poverty

Thy glory in my valley.

-The Valley of Vision (from a collection of Puritan Prayers)

 In my days of wine and roses, sour wine and withered roses, when I was stashing vodka bottles in the bathroom, the glove compartment, and the geranium pot, I saw my life as a complete waste. …It was a long winter of discontent, guilt, fear, shame, and unbearable hypocrisy. The future held out only the bleak prospect of a wet brain and an alcoholic shuffle, commitment to a funny farm, or premature death. The disease meant failure with no redeeming aspect whatsoever.

But living out of the center has taught me that every failure succeeds in some way. It provides the opportunity not only to humble the self, but also to be with the failure of others. If your life or mine were an untarnished success story, an unbroken upward spiral toward holiness, we might never come to understand the human heart.”

-Brennan Manning

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 As the world spins crazily around us, as grown men with beards pretend they are women and demand (in many places now with the force of law) that we honor them as such, as the institutions we trusted in our youth are shown to be utterly corrupt and untrustworthy, it is easy to sinfully worry and be filled with care.

And when that temptation arises (as it does for me daily), words such as these calm my soul. Written in a time of persecution, the suffering church is given a glimpse into heaven, and we come to realize that no matter what the uproar here, worship, in its fullest depth, continues unhindered there.

Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, 

“Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing.” 

And every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying, 

“To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be the blessing and the honor and the glory and the might forever and ever.” 

And the four living creatures kept saying, “Amen.” And the elders fell down and worshiped. (Revelation 5:11-14)

-James White

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