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