I think, at the end of days,
I will see how things were for you,
and you for me.
Then anything not yet forgiven
will be forgiven.
We will love and be loved,
the way we always wanted.
That, I think, is our future.
Let’s go there together.
Grace and peace to us all…
dw
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Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it. It is better to find God on the threshold of despair than to risk our lives in a complacency that has never felt the need of forgiveness.
— Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island, Sentences on Hope
From one kind of sublime to, well, a something different…
I just happened to hear Andy Grammer’s Wish You Pain this morning.
Thomas Merton and Andy Grammer in the same post???
Get over it 🙂
dw
p.s. my better half took me to an Andy Grammer concert a couple of weeks back. I have to admit I’m a snob when it comes to musical style…and I found Andy’s positive message so spot on…well, who needs to be a snob anyway?
Grace and peace to you…
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Those who abandon everything in order to seek God know well that He is the God of the poor…the supreme expression of His justice is to forgive those whom no one else would ever have forgiven. That is why He is, above all, the God of those who can hope where there is no hope. The penitent thief who died with Christ was able to see God where the doctors of the law had just proved impossible Jesus’s claim to divinity.
— Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island, Sentences on Hope
Perhaps,
in our darkest hour,
the difference between
hope and despair
is our willingness
to recognize
the God of love
hanging on the cross
beside ours.
dw
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