When Love leads, Justice follows.
Judgement without compassion is the Devil's work.
Grace and peace to you…
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If it were the end of days
If it were the end of days,
I’d say:
Let’s do this,
See what God begins next.
Let’s do it together,
See how God loves
from the very next beginning
To the never-ending end.
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Search and rescue
So that this call should resound throughout the world, Christ sent forth the apostles he had chosen, commissioning them to proclaim the gospel: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.”4 Strengthened by this mission, the apostles “went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it.”5
4 Mt 28:18-20 5 Mk 16:20
Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 2
In our age, the idea of “making disciples” is often met with a good deal of skepticism. For good reason.
Conversion is too often coercion.
The “good news”, instead of resounding, too often amounts to irritating noise (at best) or really bad news.
Too often the good news is disconnected from the sheer goodness of God and amounts to no more than another avenue for human pride, prejudice, power, and greed.
God calls us to seek him because he is the best there is.
He has made a way for us to recognize and find him – Jesus.
He sends search teams to find and rescue us, to bring us across the border into his kingdom, to foster and adopt us as children, family.
That is the good news, the really good news.
May that news resound throughout the world.
Grace and peace to you…
dw
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The end of days
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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Glory is a thing
or some thing
that shines
or makes things shine
just because
of what it is
or what it finds in them
Kind of like Love
maybe
if the love is of the right kind
like the kind that doesn’t separate
Like the kind that says,
Don’t be afraid
You’re good
There you go
Shining
as though you were my Beloved
or something
Like the Light of the world
or something
Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for look, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people: Today in the city of David a Savior was born for you, who is the Messiah, the Lord.
Christian Standard Bible. CSB Reader’s Bible (p. 1523). B&H Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. We observed his glory, the glory as the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Christian Standard Bible. CSB Reader’s Bible (p. 1571). B&H Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Grace and peace to you…
dw
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