Breaking the chain of sin

Sin originates in lack of sufficient believable unconditional love.  And this lack form as chain:  People who have not experienced being loved adequately aren’t able to love adequately, and so their children and other companions are impoverished in turn and pass this deficiency on to all whom they touch….

…. the only way out of sin is to see through the falsehood, to be really convinced that someone else is sustaining you, that you don’t have to sustain yourself, that you are already given more affirmation, nurturance, respect love, life, joy than you can even imagine desiring.

                                                                                                                                Beatrice Buteau

For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family[a] in heaven and on earth derives its name.  I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

                                                                                                                                Paul (Ephesians 3)

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on this day Lord

this day which you have made

help me remember

that I already have everything I could possibly need

I do not need to go forth

to search and gather

I do not need to seek and grasp

pulling to myself wealth, or possessions,

power or fame

or even love

to find a life that is rich

what I seek is not out there

what I seek and need is inside me

already

it is already present in my life

it is your presence

at the seat of my soul

You are there Oh Holy One

you are there

with more affirmation, nurturance, respect love, life, joy than I can even imagine

and that is all I need

to be at peace

to find joy in the rising of the sun on the mountain

to smile

and

to break the fearful chain of fear

in my own life

and in the lives of those

whom you have gently placed in my way

thank you Lord

for making your home in me