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Friday, May 16, 2014

Mercy within mercy within mercy


Thomas Merton once said…. “Mercy within mercy, within mercy.”  It’s as if we collapse into deeper nets of acceptance, deeper nets of being enclosed and finally find we’re in a net we can’t fall out of.  We are captured by grace.
                                                                                                                Richard Rohr
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mercy
within mercy
within mercy

god’s safety net
for those of us
who sometimes fall

for all of us

big hands, like those of a loving father
catching us as we fall

gentle hands, like those of a mother
gently holding

picking us up
holding us up

mercy

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