A wonderful post from Jan at Yearning for God:
"Mercy and truth have met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed each other,"(Psalm 85:10).
"So when we think of mercy, we should be thinking first and foremost of a bond, an infallible link of love that holds the created and uncreated realms together. The mercy of God does not come and go, granted to some and refused to others. Why? Because it is unconditional--always there, underlying everything. It is literally the force that holds everything in existence, the gravitational field in which we live and move and have our being. Just like that little fish swimming desperately in search of water, we too--in the words of Psalm 103--'swim in mercy as in an endless sea.' Mercy is God's innermost being turned outward to sustain the visible and created world in unbreakable love." (25)
Cynthia Bourgeault Mystical Hope: Trusting in the Mercy of God (Cloister Books)
2 comments:
So glad you posted this! (But there's a misspelling in your title. . . .)
So there was - my French "our"s must have been leaking!
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