The Fire I Came to Bring

Connected Not Correct

SCRIPTURE Colossians 3:4 (NIV) When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. REFRAIN I am connected, and that is enough. QUOTE Henri Nouwen, from Moving from Solitude to Community to Ministry "Community is not loneliness grabbing onto loneliness: 'I'm so lonely, and you're so lonely.' It's solitude grabbing onto solitude: 'I am the beloved; you are the beloved; together we can build a home.'" ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

All In One Lump

SCRIPTURE 1 Corinthians 15:28 (NIV) When he has done this, then the Son himself will be made subject to him who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all. REFRAIN I am caught up in something larger than myself. QUOTE Thomas Merton, from No Man Is an Island "We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others. What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean, first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others." ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

We Are All In This Together

SCRIPTURE John 17:21 (NIV) "…that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me." REFRAIN We are all in this together. QUOTE Richard Rohr, from The Universal Christ When we carry our small suffering in solidarity with the one universal longing of all humanity, it helps keep us from self-pity or self-preoccupation. We know that we are all in this together, and it is just as hard for everybody else. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Carrying God's Suffering

SCRIPTURE Colossians 1:24 (NIV) Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ's afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church. REFRAIN My suffering is held within something larger. QUOTE Etty Hillesum, from An Interrupted Life "Living and dying, sorrow and joy... it is all as one in me, and I accept it all as one mighty whole... I wish I could live for a long time so that one day I may know how to explain it... And that is why I must try to live a good and faithful life to my last breath: so that those who come after me do not have to start all over again, need not face the same difficulties. Isn't that doing something for future generations?" ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

We Are One Body

SCRIPTURE Ephesians 4:4, 7 (NIV) There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called. But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. REFRAIN I am because we are. QUOTE Desmond Tutu, from Ubuntu: On the Nature of Human Community "A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because of other people." ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.