Visions of prophets, a glorified transfiguration, bright lights, and voices — all streamed together to “call” the disciples deeper into the mystery of God revealed in Jesus.
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Loving with all of one’s self, one’s being is a different kind of love
It is a freeing love. It is the love of the cross. It is a love that cannot be conquered by hate. It is a love that can transform hate and even, some would say, change the world.
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Godliness is the only way to really live
Advice well given! Advice well taken!
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Be open to the movement of the Spirit!
It causes you and me not only to find more things out there, but also in here — within ourselves.
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Perhaps, God’s anger, words are designed to pull out a response in us
Maybe 40 days is just enough time for us if we really chew on all of this, play with it, seek through it, allow ourselves to be touched deeply by these stories, and then to discover God and God’s love through it all.
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We are led to the waters. Now, let us drink!
But our openness and response to grace also makes all the difference in the world.
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God wants to form us into Christian warriors
Do you form warriors with easy, peaky, weaky words; or do you shout out commands to toughen and roughen them up?
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Like Jesus, are we capable of and open to emptying ourselves?
Let us do Lent so we can do Easter and be renewed as disciples of Jesus Christ!
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God gives good advice, but do we take it?
Since everyone at some time or another needs healing, presumably we are very lucky and no doubt very comforted with Jesus’ words.
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Fasting much go much farther than just ‘giving up something’ for Lent
And fasting, the kind the Lord wants, repairs the heart and opens the heart to see with love, to be truly human and even divine.
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