Radical Amazement
Jewish theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel affirms that radical amazement is the heart of religious experience. Life is amazing.
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Jewish theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel affirms that radical amazement is the heart of religious experience. Life is amazing.
In the spirit of seeing every encounter as a blessing, let me bring beauty and healing to all my relationships.
In his first inaugural address, President Abraham Lincoln counseled his listeners to follow the better angels of their nature. War was on the horizon, and yet Lincoln asserted that “we are not enemies, but friends.”
The meek are blessed precisely because they recognize their dependence on the generosity of God and creation.
Philippians 4:8 counsels us to think about things that are commendable, excellent, and worthy. The quality of our thoughts can bring joy or sorrow to our lives.
Saints rejoice in their common humanity, knowing that God’s word becomes flesh in fallible and ambivalent persons like ourselves.
As Bonaventure writes, God is “totally submerged in the waters from the sole of the foot to the top of the head…. [God] appeared to you as your beloved cut through with wound upon wound in order to heal you.”
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