We hope for what we do not see.* We reach for what we cannot grasp. Now we cannot go to the place we desire,** but we can be there now. If we open our hearts to you, O God, we can taste the inner sweetness of your goodness, despite the outer bitterness of circumstances in which we find ourselves. O God, if we but listen with our hearts, we will hear You speaking the Truth of Your love for us in the depths of our hearts. When we hear the Truth, and embrace the Truth, and know the Truth, it sets us free.*** Liberated from our false ideas that we can rely on ourselves, we are empowered to do all things through You, O God, who strengthens us.**** Sure in the faith that You love us, therefore totally trusting in You, when we thus embrace You, O God, in the deepest recesses of our being now and in every moment regardless of what happens, now we can enter into the eternal life and into the joy You promise to us. My Lord and my God, may Your will be done, now and always. Amen.
* Romans 8:25
** John 8:21; John 13:33; John 13:36
*** John 8:32
**** Philippians 4:13
* Romans 8:25
** John 8:21; John 13:33; John 13:36
*** John 8:32
**** Philippians 4:13
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