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“To experience the presence of God burning in the heart of all creation, we often need this kind of spontaneity to awaken our inner sight to Christ in our midst: in the breaking of the bread, as the image of God within everyone we meet, and especially in those whom the world (and especially the church) have cast out…”
“As you broke the river’s surface at your baptism: So reconcile me to you in peace…”
“Wash the shade from my sight, and in my seeing, let me look through your light at everyone and everything…”
“If the visitation of the magi to the Christ child teaches us anything, it’s that it takes a measure of foolishness to be genuine seekers and worshipers of God…”
“For this season of Epiphany, let’s seek God for a sharpening of our senses that we may experience love and truth revealed in the scriptures, one another, and through all creation…”
“Free me from symbols, from words…”
“Whereas the way of the world is to insist on publicity, celebrity, popularity, and getting maximum exposure, God prefers to work in secret…”
“May it be done to me, according to your word…”
“How can I be a space — simple, open, warm, stilled — that is prepared to receive the smallest, humblest, most vulnerable version of divinity when it comes quietly knocking at my door? Can I welcome a God I don’t recognize at first, a God who shows up in rags, comes from another country, and is dependent on my meager shelter? Am I brave enough for that?” -Siri Liv Myhrom
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