Victory: The power to believe.
Victory: The power to hope.
Victory: The power of grace.
Victory: The power to hear your voice.
Victory: The power to differentiate your voice from all the others with increasing clarity.
A dark voice told me to do away with myself. I tied a rope to the banister upstairs and measured out how much rope I would need to tie an effective noose.
“What are you doing?” you said to me sadly. “If only you knew what I have planned for you.”
Victory: Someone who loved me came and tore my stiffened fingers from the rope, put me in a room and locked me inside in order to go fetch someone else who loved me. Someone took the children to their grandmother.
Victory: That was the first time I knew for sure that you could seek me out to talk to me.
Victory: The power to see you at the foot of my bed. The strength not to doubt.
Victory: The power of resilience; to return three times from the dead.
Victory: The power, of the resurrection. The truth that has been planted in you, stronger than all the wrongs of this world.
The power of love. Victory.
There once was a person who saw an angel on its way to who knows where. The angel certainly knew, its face set in determination. It obviously knew what it was doing.
The person thought: that´s an angel, it has to be, right?
“Hey, angel, can I tag along?”
The angel replied, “Take the road you have to take, or have you forgotten? Use your wings, it´s quicker.”
Then this angel looked at this person more closely, said:
“You´ve never tried, have you?”
The person started thinking about a reply.
Too late, the angel had gone.
Fear not: The spirit empowers you to pursue the Word rather than your own understanding.
To believe that he loves us all the same:
As in: despite our inherent unworthiness.
As in: inexhaustible, impartial love.
Fear not: The spirit has empowered me to turn down my dream job
And the best salary I would ever earn.
Fear not: The strength given to fall to your knees.
The strength to say without you I can do nothing.
The strength to bear the mockery. The solitude.
The danger. And death.
Fear not: The strength given to obey despite the madness of it.
The strength to proclaim Jesus and the grace to multiply.
These things have been given me.
— Ninny
Victory: The power to hope.
Victory: The power of grace.
Victory: The power to hear your voice.
Victory: The power to differentiate your voice from all the others with increasing clarity.
A dark voice told me to do away with myself. I tied a rope to the banister upstairs and measured out how much rope I would need to tie an effective noose.
“What are you doing?” you said to me sadly. “If only you knew what I have planned for you.”
Victory: Someone who loved me came and tore my stiffened fingers from the rope, put me in a room and locked me inside in order to go fetch someone else who loved me. Someone took the children to their grandmother.
Victory: That was the first time I knew for sure that you could seek me out to talk to me.
Victory: The power to see you at the foot of my bed. The strength not to doubt.
Victory: The power of resilience; to return three times from the dead.
Victory: The power, of the resurrection. The truth that has been planted in you, stronger than all the wrongs of this world.
The power of love. Victory.
There once was a person who saw an angel on its way to who knows where. The angel certainly knew, its face set in determination. It obviously knew what it was doing.
The person thought: that´s an angel, it has to be, right?
“Hey, angel, can I tag along?”
The angel replied, “Take the road you have to take, or have you forgotten? Use your wings, it´s quicker.”
Then this angel looked at this person more closely, said:
“You´ve never tried, have you?”
The person started thinking about a reply.
Too late, the angel had gone.
Fear not: The spirit empowers you to pursue the Word rather than your own understanding.
To believe that he loves us all the same:
As in: despite our inherent unworthiness.
As in: inexhaustible, impartial love.
Fear not: The spirit has empowered me to turn down my dream job
And the best salary I would ever earn.
Fear not: The strength given to fall to your knees.
The strength to say without you I can do nothing.
The strength to bear the mockery. The solitude.
The danger. And death.
Fear not: The strength given to obey despite the madness of it.
The strength to proclaim Jesus and the grace to multiply.
These things have been given me.
— Ninny
Ninny, you are BLESSED and a BLESSING. Thank you for this perfect writing for Good Friday, Victory from the Cross. Amen and Amen. Canyonwoman
ReplyDeleteThank you, Canyonwoman. I deliberately waited until I had come back home after the Good Friday service. I'm glad you feel that I have been able to pass the blessings on.
DeleteAnd thank you for the gift of your writing.
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