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"Mercy and truth have met together;
Righteousness and peace have kissed each other,"
(Psalm 85:10).
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)
~~Cynthia Bourgeault
Mystical Hope: Trusting in the Mercy of God (Cloister Books)
6 comments:
Sometimes I just want to print out your posts like this and put them with my prayer books and journal that I use in the mornings.
Brilliant. Plus I love that line from the Psalm so much.
Oh! I am gasping and sighing.
So beautiful....
Thank you!
A thousand superlatives, O excellent one!
This is superb... thank you!
Mike
Simply beautiful.
Have you seen the movie "Babette's Feast"? One of the main characters quotes this psalm and then expounds upon it during the feast. One of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite movies.
I will always associate that line with the movie/story Babette's Feast, by Isak Dineson. It was one of the old Danish Pastor's famous lines...
btw, I always cry at the end of Babette's Feast..
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