DalisMoustache · 70-79
My eyes being hindered by blind passions,
I cannot perceive the light that grasps me;
Yet the great compassion, without tiring,
Illumines me always
(Shinran, from "Hymns of the Pure Land Masters")
And the Christian Julian of Norwich on the same theme......
If there be anywhere on earth a lover of God who is always kept safe, I know nothing of it, for it was not shown to me. But this was shown: that in falling and rising again we are always kept in that same precious love.
The heart of gratitude grows. That we have been chosen. That God''s love is eternal and comes first. In which we live and move and have our being.
So it is not getting in our own devotional at all. Grace has come first. Or in our own efforts not to run away.
I cannot perceive the light that grasps me;
Yet the great compassion, without tiring,
Illumines me always
(Shinran, from "Hymns of the Pure Land Masters")
And the Christian Julian of Norwich on the same theme......
If there be anywhere on earth a lover of God who is always kept safe, I know nothing of it, for it was not shown to me. But this was shown: that in falling and rising again we are always kept in that same precious love.
The heart of gratitude grows. That we have been chosen. That God''s love is eternal and comes first. In which we live and move and have our being.
So it is not getting in our own devotional at all. Grace has come first. Or in our own efforts not to run away.
@DalisMoustache Oh yeah, grace not works.
@Adstar Interesting, not the way I read it.
