Day: March 28, 2010

If Only

If you, even you, had only recognized…

the things that make for peace.

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“Sacrifice”:
Some Musings on Psalm 51

Andrew Schmemann wisely suggests the opposite of sacrifice is ‘consumerism” – the belief that we own what we have and have control over it and need to own more and more. An ethic of sacrifice recognizes that growth toward God always requires a letting go and a receiving, a mutuality that is part of the divine nature, part of what we share in because we were made in the image of God.

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The quality of love

To look at the Crucifix—“the supreme symbol of our august religion”—and then to look at our own hearts; to test by the Cross the quality of our love—if we do that honestly and unflinchingly we don’t need any other self-examination than that, any other judgement or purgation. The lash, the crown of thorns, the mockery, the stripping, the nails—life has equivalents of all these for us and God asks a love for Himself and His children which can accept and survive all that in the particular way in which it is offered to us.

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