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Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him.

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

[The] insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dominant perspective of almost all of Jesus' teaching. What is indiscriminate compassion? 'Take a look at a rose. Is is possible for the rose to say, "I'...

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are impoverished and broken and realize that, if we were not, we would be God. The art of gentleness toward ourselves leads to being gent...

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystica...

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion. Donald Gray expresses this: "Jesus reveals in an exceptionally human life what it is to live a divine life, a compassionate life.

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John's Gospel we are told that Jesus was moved with the deepest emotions (11:33)... The gospel portrait of t...

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone... Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the heart of God is defin...

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency... God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others.

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging