The Unwounded Life Bears No

I Want Neither A Terrorist Spirituality That Keeps Me In A Perpetual State Of Fright About Being In Right Relationship With My Heavenly Father Nor A Sappy Spirituality That Portrays God As Such A Benign Teddy Bear That There Is No Aberrant Behavior Or Desire Of Mine That He Will Not Condone. I Want A Relationship With The Abba Of Jesus, Who Is Infinitely Compassionate With My Brokenness And At The Same Time An Awesome, Incomprehensible, And Unwieldy Mystery.

The Beauty Of The Ragamuffin Gospel Lies In The Insight It Offers Into Jesus: The Essential Tenderness Of His Heart, His Way Of Looking At The World, His Mode Of Relating To You And Me. 'if You Really Want To Understand A Man, Don't Just Listen To What He Says, But Watch What He Does.

And Grace Calls Out, 'you Are Not Just A Disillusioned Old Man Who May Die Soon, A Middle-aged Woman Stuck In A Job And Desperately Wanting To Get Out, A Young Person Feeling The Fire In The Belly Begin To Grow Cold. You May Be Insecure, Inadequate, Mistaken Or Potbellied. Death, Panic, Depression, And Disillusionment May Be Near You. But You Are Not Just That. You Are Accepted.' Never Confuse Your Perception Of Yourself With The Mystery That You Really Are Accepted.

I Asked For Wonder, And He Gave It To Me.

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.