Once again, keeping track of things to think about

[tree_and_leaf]

There is no part of us which God is reluctant to look at. He is not embarrassed by us. There are bits of us that look - and are - deathly, but God is in the resurrection business.

God is the only person who can properly judge us, because he is the only person who properly knows us and what went into the making of us (including ourselves). He will not give up on us; whatever we do, however we reject love, the least honest turning back to him is met with his grace and transforming acceptance (if there's the least spark, he will blow on it until it kindles into a flame, as CS Lewis observes).

God meets us where we are. All he asks of us is that we be - or try to be - honest and open to him, here and now, and let him work in us.

We don't say that God is loving, or acts lovingly; he is love.

Talking about what we 'ought' to feel is extremely dangerous.

It seems likely that the question we will be asked when we come before God is not, why were you so wicked, but 'why did you spend so much time making yourself (and others) unhappy?'

One of the less noticed consequences of the Incarnation is that God knows what it feels like to be me.

Comments

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, yes to all of this.

(btw, may I friend you? I keep seeing your comments all over my friends' journals and yet somehow have never friended you.)

[sangerin.livejournal.com]

So, I think I'm just going to have to create a memories category called "awesome t-and-l thoughts". Because this is yet another one. And I just have this feeling that it needs to be copied into my paperjournal and reflected upon.

[wuglet.livejournal.com]

I'm very happy to agree. "awesome t-and-l thoughts" always lift me up. :)

[wuglet.livejournal.com]

I still mean to comment on several of your posts, only I'm dead tired when I come home from work.
On the weekend, I promise. :)

[tree_and_leaf]

Sure, please do, and it's nice to meet you!

[tree_and_leaf]

Gosh - I'm glad that you find them worth thinking about, because I think they are, otherwise I wouldn't have recorded them - but I can't take much credit, it's come out of conversations in spiritual direction, and I'm just writing down what I've found meaningful.

It's actually quite exciting, though.

[tree_and_leaf]

I hope you're bearing up and enjoying the new job, though!

[tree_and_leaf]

*blushes* ;)

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

For someone who doesn't have a religious life really, I find them a valuable insight, and very much worth me reading.

[owl]

Thank you.

[scionofgrace.livejournal.com]

This is fantastic and absolutely true.