What is it about the poor? Why are they so special in the scriptures? Why do they seem to listen to God and walk in his ways more?
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Open yourself to the Spirit of God
Ah! The star was indeed true! And the staff and authority was his. Also true! But just as true as the prophetic utterances of Balaam was the ignorance and lack of faith.
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Listen. See. Take it into your heart.
And the Gospel warns that some will not hear, nor see, nor take it into the heart and will miss it, misname it, judge it, falsify it, refuse it, and in their own way become disconnected! And don’t blame God for it. God promised eternal connection, never cutting off or blotting away.
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Do the right thing
Actually, it seems a little strange, weird — and ugly, even — that God calls Jacob a worm and Israel a maggot. It also is always a little difficult to hear about the violence, war, conquering, and other social upheaval that God would create.
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I’m your servant, Lord. Use me, use me, use me!
The only thing I can say — and I say it with as much gumption as I can muster: If we are going to believe these mystical and wondrous thing said of Mary, then we must believe also the mystical and wondrous things said to the Ephesians and equally to us.
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Heaven is glad and the earth rejoices
To experience healing forgiveness — to receive it and/or to offer it to another — brings “soulfulness” into our lives; we are “made new.”
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What am I going to get?
The coming of the Lord is not “just another day.” This is the event, the moment, the day, the “we’ve never seen anything like this before” time!
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Be the blind who have faith
All of the messianic language of the scriptures would not prepare for this kind of messiah. Because this messiah was to “save us from ourselves.” This messiah was to heal us from our “sin,” the part of us that could keep us from being truly human and, therefore, also recognizing the divine within us.
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Building on rock and stone
Communion with God in all things and in every way is the way to peace and happiness of the profound kind.
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God works at the deepest parts of our souls
There is some necessary “knowhow” and needed “determination” to open our spirit to receive. It isn’t magic, but it is spiritual.
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