If indeed humans have existed on this planet for 160,000 years, God definitely has “hung around” around with us, put up with a lot, loved us in spite of ourselves, and continues to grace and gift us without conditions and without limits.
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Listen, be open to God like little children
And we say as the Gospel verse said, “Alleluia! Alleluia! Blessed are you Father, Lord of heaven and earth; you have revealed to little ones the mysteries of the kingdom. Alleluia! Alleluia!”
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Angels bring us closer to God
The hope is that they are doing their job.
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Longing for the life Jesus offers us
But let us face it — curiosity is not enough.
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Having faith, a good attitude is amazing grace
And even Jesus was amazed.
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Jesus Christ sends us forth to respond to this world with compassion
Anyone can judge it, but a true disciple sees it with compassion and loves as Christ loves.
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If we do behold the face of God, will we recognize it or walk away
Let’s face it — admitting one’s faults or errors just doesn’t come easy to many, even maybe to most.
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We are all invited into the journey of the cross
And, no doubt — year after year, trial after trial, sorrow after sorrow, challenge after challenge — the journey just gets better and deeper, and it ironically and wonderfully produces more love.
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Has the cross done what it was prophetically promised to do?
Has it, indeed, turned hearts back to our fathers and our fathers to us; back to our mothers and our mothers to us. Back to our brothers and our sisters, and even back to ourselves? One wonders.
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Why are you terrified?
Maybe this God, in all kinds of ways and through all kinds of things — and in both good and bad times, and in joy and pain and sorrow — maybe this God truly has come to his people.
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