How often and widely can this be applied? This is what I am wondering. Probably like everyone else, I hope it can be applied broadly. I hope it can be applied to my life.
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I want to know him in these same ways, being united with him in his life and death. I am sure that there are depths to this uniting that I have barely begun to probe, either mentally or emotionally or relationally or however this union happens and whatever its effects are. It’s disconcerting to consider- who wants to enter suffering? And yet- there is the tug at my heart.
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Today, if Jesus were physically among us, and He began teaching us “Love your enemies,” as He did back then, I wonder what He would answer if someone asked him, “Who is my enemy?” What would He say?
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In between these extremes there is the recurring first thought and feeling, “I just want to be held.” This is during a season of longing. This one will wake me in the night as well. And what is it that I am after? It seems like a homesickness for heaven, a loneliness that no person in the world can soothe, an assurance that there is something out there that is drawing me in. Not something, of course, but Someone.
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I was visiting a godly, older couple with whom I was closely acquainted (ok, it was my parents) and happened to observe them as they went through their mail. My mother, passing several envelopes to my dad, gave him her two-word summary of contents of the envelopes: “begging letters.”
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I have no master except myself as far as work goes and so often I am working myself until I am nearly in tears…
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