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Colossians 1:27 (NRSVUE)
Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Christ lives in me.
Richard Rohr
“The Christ Mystery
is not something to admire from a distance.
It is something to participate in.
God has chosen to dwell
not merely among us,
but within us—
so that divine love
might continue to take flesh
in the world.”
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Matthew 1:23 (NRSVUE)
“Look, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,
and they shall name him Emmanuel,”
which means, “God is with us.”
God is with us.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, from *God Is in the Manger*
“God is not ashamed of the lowliness of human beings.
God marches right in.
God chooses people as his instruments
and performs wonders where one would least expect them.
God is near us—
in the midst of our lives.”
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Luke 2:6–7
While they were there, the time came for Mary to deliver her child.
And she gave birth to her firstborn son
and wrapped him in bands of cloth and laid him in a manger,
because there was no place in the guest room.
God is found in the ordinary.
Madeleine L’Engle, from Walking on Water
“There is nothing so secular
that it cannot be sacred.
And nothing so ordinary
that it cannot be filled with God.
If we believe that God took on flesh,
then every place
where life unfolds
is holy ground.”
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John 1:14 (NRSVUE)
And the Word became flesh and lived among us,
and we have seen his glory,
the glory as of a father’s only son,
full of grace and truth.
God is closer than I imagined.
Meister Eckhart
“God is nearer to me than I am to myself.
My being depends on God’s nearness
and God’s presence within me.
God does not come and go.
God is always here.”
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Luke 1:38 (NRSVUE)
Then Mary said,
“Here am I, the servant of the Lord;
let it be with me according to your word.”
Then the angel departed from her.
I make room for God.
Jan Richardson
“This is a season
for making room—
for letting the heart
be opened
not by force
but by consent.
The Holy does not arrive
with demands,
but with an invitation
that waits patiently
to be welcomed.”
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Deuteronomy 33:27 (NRSVUE)
The eternal God is your dwelling place,
and underneath are the everlasting arms.
I am held in God.
Julian of Norwich
“For I saw no wrath in God,
only mercy.
And I saw that we are all held,
and shall be held,
in love—
and this holding never fails.”
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1 John 4:16 (NRSVUE)
So we have known and believe the love that God has for us.
God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God,
and God abides in them.
God’s love moves through me.
Howard Thurman
“When love is present,
it does not force its way.
It creates space.
It releases fear,
loosens the grip of control,
and invites life to unfold as it must.
Love does not originate with us.
It passes through us,
shaping the world
as it goes.”
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Philippians 2:3 (NRSVUE)
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit,
but in humility regard others as better than yourselves.
I am free to be small and loved.
Meister Eckhart
“The more completely you are able
to empty yourself,
the more room God has to act within you.
True humility is not weakness.
It is the spaciousness
that allows divine love to move freely.”
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Habakkuk 2:3 (NRSVUE)
For there is still a vision for the appointed time;
it speaks of the end and does not lie.
If it seems to tarry, wait for it;
it will surely come, it will not delay.
I trust the slow work of God.
Parker J. Palmer, from *Let Your Life Speak*
“Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it,
listen for what it intends to do with you.
Before you tell your life what truths you have decided to live up to,
let your life tell you what truths you embody.
Vocation does not come from willfulness.
It comes from listening.
Listening to the quiet, persistent voice
that invites you to become
the person you already are.”
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John 15:4 (NRSVUE)
Abide in me as I abide in you.
Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself
unless it abides in the vine,
neither can you unless you abide in me.
I choose to abide in love.
Evelyn Underhill
“The spiritual life is not a career of effort
but a condition of being.
It is not attained by strain
but by consent.
We do not need to rush ahead of God.
We are invited to remain—
to stay rooted in love,
and let that love do its quiet work.”
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Romans 15:13 (NRSVUE)
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing,
so that you may abound in hope
by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Hope rises within me by the Spirit of God.
John O’Donohue
“Hope is not a prediction of the future.
It is a companion for the present.
It whispers that meaning is still unfolding,
that grace is still moving,
that God is not finished
with any part of your story.”
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Psalm 103:8 (NRSVUE)
The Lord is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
God’s love is patient with my becoming.
Julian of Norwich
“God is never surprised by our weakness,
never offended by our slowness.
For He sees us not merely as we are,
but as we are becoming—
and He loves us
with a patient love
that cannot be hurried or diminished.”
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Psalm 34:17 (NRSVUE)
When the righteous cry for help,
the Lord hears
and rescues them from all their troubles.
God hears me in every breath.
Teresa of Ávila
“Prayer is not thinking much,
but loving much.
It is the quiet turning of the heart
toward the One
who has been listening
since before you learned to speak.”
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Psalm 16:5 (NRSVUE)
The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup;
you hold my lot.
In God, this moment is enough.
Richard Rohr
“We do not find God
in the future we are anxiously building,
but in the present we are constantly overlooking.
Grace is not what we earn or achieve—
it is what is already given,
what is quietly present,
what has always been enough.”
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Psalm 143:10 (NRSVUE)
Teach me the way I should go,
for to you I lift up my soul.
God leads me even when the path is unclear.
Macrina Wiederkehr
“Guide me, O God of the journey,
for in the mystery that lies ahead
I cannot travel by sight.
But if You walk with me,
uncertainty becomes a holy place—
a doorway
where trust is born.”
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Revelation 21:5 (NRSVUE)
And the one who was seated on the throne said,
“See, I am making all things new.”
God is making all things new—including me.
Thomas Merton
“There is in all visible things
a hidden wholeness—
a divine seed
waiting for the moment
it will break open in glory.
Nothing is lost in God’s renewal.
Everything,
in its own time,
is made new.”
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Genesis 28:16 (NRSVUE)
Then Jacob woke from his sleep and said,
“Surely the Lord is in this place—
and I did not know it!”
God is here, in this very moment.
David Whyte
“Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.
To walk the world awake
is to see the miracle
in what we have come to call ordinary.
The sacred is not elsewhere—
it is here,
waiting for our eyes
to finally open.”
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John 17:21 (NRSVUE)
“…that they may all be one.
As you, Father, are in me and I am in you,
may they also be in us…”
I am invited into union with God.
Meister Eckhart
“God is always at home.
It is we who have gone out for a walk.
Yet the soul that returns to itself
returns to God,
for the ground of the soul
and the ground of God
are one and the same.
To awaken is to realize
you have never been separate.”
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Romans 8:16 (NRSVUE)
It is that very Spirit
bearing witness with our spirit
that we are children of God.
The Spirit speaks within me.
St. Symeon the New Theologian
“God is not far away.
The fire of the Spirit
shines within your heart,
warming, illuminating,
revealing who you truly are.
Look within,
and you will find the One
who has been looking for you.”
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Acts 17:28 (NRSVUE)
For “In him we live and move and have our being,”
as even some of your own poets have said,
“For we too are his offspring.”
God is in all things, and all things are in God.
Teilhard de Chardin
“By virtue of creation,
not one of us is ever far from God.
The divine presence
is at the heart of matter
and at the center of our soul.
To live is to sense that Presence—
to discover God
in everything that is growing,
everything that is moving,
everything that simply is.”
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