Lent 2009: Day 40

Lenten Journey through the Spiritual Alphabet
Psalm 119, Sustainable Love
(Palm Sunday - beginning of Holy Week)

Resh (part 2)
Though my persecutors and foes are many
I do not turn from your decrees.
I view the faithless with loathing,
because they do not heed your promise.
See how I love your precepts, LORD;
in your kindness give me life.
Your every word is enduring;
all your just edicts are forever.

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On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, "Peace be with you."
When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.

(Jesus) said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you."
And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the holy Spirit.
Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained."

(Excerpt John 20)
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Dear Father who sent us divine Peace through Jesus:
I see Your Edicts working in me,
when I have been in a difficult situation
and only feel intense Love.

I don’t try to forgive it just happens.
I don’t try to Love, it just happens

Help me-forgiving-myself just happen too…
Actually…help me let go of myself –
I want to give it to You
in exchange for complete reception of Your Spirit.

I suppose I need to let it just happen.

Help me have this prescience within my daily panorama
within every breath of my existence.
Amen
K