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Arthur Darby Nock

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Elizabeth Browning



Thursday, January 7, 2016

Love's embrace


“…the thing that sucks is that every time we draw a line between us and others, Jesus is always on the other side of it.” Damn.”
― Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
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funny thing about Jesus
there were those who wanted to own him

“Jesus and I, we are like, this…..!”
“When I was out to lunch with Jesus the other day…”

this was the group who already thought they owned God
they had rituals
they had scriptures
they had rules
God belonged to them

Poor fools
Jesus disappointed them so many times
He had such bad taste in friends

he was constantly slipping out
sneaking off to be with
tax collectors, prostitutes
Ethiopians (probably)
and other sinners

he found his place
and his ministry
among those who were lost
who  had no sense that the presence of the Sacred in their lives
was even a possibility

Those who felt unworthy
Rather than worthy
Those were were judged, rather than judgemental

honest sinners
living on the wrong side of “the line”

but it really comes down to this
in Jesus’ world
there is
no
line

there is no saint side, or sinner side
no in our out
not included or exclude

just a circle of love
drawn by grace
and in that circle we all live

and breathe
and have our being

Donald and Bernie
Myself
You
Ammon Bundy
that 1%er CEO
that frightened child from the streets of poverty
that environmentalist
that rancher
that crazy guy with the gun in Walmart

we are all there
in love’s embrace

damn indeed
or rather

Aaaaah

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