If Asked Whether I Am Finally Letting

To Affirm A Person Is To See The Good In Them That They Cannot See In Themselves And To Repeat It In Spite Of Appearances To The Contrary. Please, This Is Not Some Pollyanna Optimism That Is Blind To The Reality Of Evil, But Rather Like A Fine Radar System That Is Tuned In To The True, The Good, And The Beautiful.

Whenever I Allow Anything But Tenderness And Compassion To Dictate My Response To Life--be It Self-righteous Anger, Moralizing, Defensiveness, The Pressing Need To Change Others...i Am Alienated From My True Self. My Identity As Abba's Child [a Child Of God] Becomes Ambiguous, Tentative And Confused

Jesus Reveals A God Who Does Not Demand But Who Gives; Who Does Not Oppress But Who Raises Up; Who Does Not Wound But Who Heals; Who Does Not Condemn But Forgives.

What Makes A Genius? The Ability To See. To See What? The Butterfly In A Caterpillar, The Eagle In An Egg, The Saint In A Selfish Person, Life In Death, Unity In Separation, God In The Human And Human In God And Suffering As The Form In Which The Incomprehensibility Of God Himself Appears.

We Have Been Given God In Our Souls And Christ In Our Flesh. We Have The Power To Believe Where Others Deny, To Hope Where Others Despair, To Love Where Others Hurt.