Timely thoughts for the day......

The first day after the new direction on this journey of discovery I picked up my devotional by my heart friend Brennan Manning and the following is the entry for January 29th in Reflections for Ragamuffins.....

Paradoxes.... When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about feeling good, I feel guilty about not feeling guilty. I am trusting and suspicious. I am honest and I still play games. Aristotle said I am a rational animal: I say I am an angel with an incredible capacity for my whole life's story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side, I learn who I am and what God's grace means. As Thomas Merton put it, "A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God."

"For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly
sanctified." john 17:19

So timely and perfectly articulated. How does he find these windows into the soul? I am continually struck by how he resonates the thoughts that bounce around my heart and never quite finds words. WOW and hummm........

Lord, help me to live today in the abundance of your grace and truth.