When I
get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt. I
hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about feeling
good, I feel guilty about not feeling guilty. I am trusting and
suspicious. I am honest and I still play games. Aristotle said I am a
rational animal; I say I am an angel with an incredible capacity for
beer.
To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole
life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side, I
learn who I am and what God's grace means. As Thomas Merton put it, "A
saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of
God."
Brennan Manning
Oh to know the grace of God in its
fulness and to live by it and rest in it and to know God for who he
really is. Lord deliver me from my self serving religious ideas and ways
that keep me from your grace.
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