Friday, February 5, 2016
Mercy is not a virtue that you choose to put on one day.
Mercy has to be your deepest way of seeing, a generosity of spirit that draws
from your identity, your deepest dignity, which is love. It is basically a
worldview of abundance, wherein I do not have to withhold, protect, or hoard
myself.
Richard
Rohr
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blessed
it has been said
are the merciful
but what does it mean to be merciful?
O yes, it means to be,
forgiving, compassionate, clement, pitying, forbearing,
lenient, humane, mild, kind, softhearted, tenderhearted, gracious, sympathetic,
liberal, tolerant, indulgent, generous, magnanimous, benign, benevolent
take your choice
but for mercy to real be mercy
that is mysterious thing
it can so easily slip into condescension
into almost arrogance
we can make mercy about us
but true mercy
can only come out of fullness
out of abundance
out of a sense of being so loved by God
that we dare risk
generosity, and forgiveness
mercy is being enfolded,
and enfolding the other,
in Sacred love, to such a degree
that we have no sense of what we are doing
and no choice
but to do
what is merciful
In mercy there is no fear
Only love
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