When suffering does not destroy you, even though you have been to the edge of the abyss, you know something that you cannot know in any other way. Someone else is sustaining you. You are indeed living by a life not your own. Or as I love to say, "Your life is not about you." It is henceforth, most truly, about God. And you are merely "free sample" of what God has always been doing. - Quote from Richard Rohr

December 05, 2005

A Prayer

My husband wrote this and I found it to be encouraging and insightful. I hope it speaks to your heart. ~ Renee

Lord, today I embrace the cross of relationships
Relationships imperfect
Relationships that hide wounds
Relationships that I am a part of and reflect

I choose to love people as they are and not as they appear in my utopian dreams

Give me the mind of Christ
That I might empty myself,
Incarnating something of you in this little space of relationships and time that I occupy


~ Keith Atkinson
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