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Lent Day 3: Inside the Wondrous Loop of the Trinity’s Love


(Excerpted from Richard Rohr’s Wondrous Encounters)

“It appears that humans can only know themselves through the gaze of others.  We call it mirroring.  A good parent, like God, naturally blesses the children through their receptive and affirming face.

It is the eternal blessings to the children of Israel:  May Yahweh let his face shine upon you and be gracious to you.  May Yahweh uncover his face to you and bring you peace! Numbers 6:25.

Bad parents, NOT like God, hand on their own self-rejection to their children.

The Gospel is total mirroring- of how we are to see ourselves as God sees us!  
No wonder it is such good news!! 

“Receive God’s compassion, and you will be able to be compassionate.  
Do not receive negative judgment from God, and you will not be judgmental yourself.  Do not condemn and you will not be condemned.  

Give and it shall be given to you.  

Jesus describes perfect reciprocity between what we have received or not received and how we will give or not give.  

It is all a matter of staying inside “the wondrous loop” of the infinite Trinity’s love.  Once you know you are inside the loop of that love, you are connected to an infinite Source, and one is never sure who is doing the giving and who is doing the receiving. 

It is all Flow and Outpouring.

It is you and yet it is God.”

Thus Jesus fills the Gospel with wonderful images and stories of overflowing abundance:
“Full measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be poured into your lap, because the measure you measure out with will be measured back to you.”  Luke 6:38
“Indeed, the water I have given them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”  John 4:14.

This is why it is so important to Be Still.  

To just BE present with God.  

To be caught up in Him, and by Him.

Hearts will open, and see His love everywhere.  

Hearts will be humbled and anxieties (our hubris) will be stilled.

Living waters shall be poured out within us, and poured out into our laps for the sake of our neighbors.

We will be transformed by the mirror of His ❤️ 


Prayer:  “Mirror me like a magnet, good God.  Don’t let me be drawn into false, unhappy, or accusing faces.  You are always and forever the Good Parent, and I long to see YOUR face.”  Let me be still enough today to have your heart poured out in mine.... and see your Love everywhere!  Amen

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