I am not what I suppose; a better creature is being made of me, often by events I cannot control, by love and suffering. Can I cooperate?
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Jesus is like a parent watching an avoidable trainwreck headed toward their cherished child. He is envisioning the terrible suffering that will soon come upon his beloveds. He so wishes it could be otherwise. And it could have. But now it is too late. His beloveds didn't recognize Divine Presence when to do so would've changed the trajectory of their future. What anguish, even despair.
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Whatever you hear from
the water, remember,
it wants you to carry
the sound of its truth on your lips.
Remember,
in this place
no one can hear you
and out of the silence
you can make a promise
it will kill you to break,
that way you'll find
what is real and what is not.
from "All the True Vows" by David Whyte
Image: St. Brigid's Well
Iona, Scotland
"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing."
—Arundhati Roy
The prophets saw visions.
They spoke in beautiful parables
About what God would do for us.
But, in my opinion,
Not one of them practiced
Clear and free Love.
Their way of life was like others'
Now here, now there, now off, now on.
Mary however said nothing else
But "Be it done to me
As God wills."
...Because she wanted nothing else
And nothing else mattered to her,
She possessed everything others read about.
This is how she laid down the conduit
Open to every humble heart.
—Hadewijch of Antwerp
(emphasis my own)
Artist: Martine Boutros, Lebanese Iconographer
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