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O Lord, remember not only the men and woman of good will, but also those of ill will. But do not remember all of the suffering they have inflicted upon us:

Instead remember the fruits we have borne because of this suffering—our fellowship, our loyalty to one another, our humility, our courage, our generosity, the greatness of heart that has grown from this trouble.

When our persecutors come to be judged by you, let all of these fruits that we have borne be their forgiveness.

(Found in the clothing of a dead child at Ravensbruck concentration camp.)
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It is hard to get on board with this magnitude of forgiveness...I just can't fathom it.
 
To journey without being changed is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and be transformed is to be a pilgrim. ~Mark Nepo
 
PearlWatson said:
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well. . . . .

Jesus does have a body. . . . . he was resurrected according to the scripture, and gave proofs that he was not just a spirit. Jehovah also has a body, according to Moses' accounts. . . . .

But beyond that, there is need for us to step up and serve in the name of God, Jesus, or whoever. . . . . So this is something even I should not quibble about, any more than I'd quibble about a tee that would be mistaken by a true baseball fan as meaning "watch out for the runner on first".

uhhhhhhh huummmmmmm.
 
Reason is the organ of truth and imagination the organ of meaning. ~ C.S. Lewis

(Edit) Extended version: “For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.”
 
PearlWatson said:
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. ~William Blake
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This goes to my little mantra about how our idea of the universe, being contained within a finite skull. . . . . . cannot possibly comprehend it. . . . . .
 
“The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness." ~Einstein
 
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