I live the perfect life when I fully embrace each moment as I fully embrace Triune as he is, not as I imagine him or want him to be. When I've imagined him to be anything other than who he says he is I've created a concept that has an appearance of the divine with no substance. My feeble heart gravitates to the concept which will always be an image created within my heart's comfort zone. I then worship a feeble construct devoid of love, power, and life. This construct draws life from me as I submit to it's shadow life. Live the shadow life long enough and each moment becomes dire and fraught with worry. God's voice seems silenced as the construct has no voice but the one I've imagined. Each moment becomes mired in the wet clay of my own imaginations. To embrace each moment would be to move deeper into the mire. Even in the most dire of circumstances there is still the image of the One I carry. There is a plumbline of hope that, once looked at, will ex...
Compassion is the pathway to mercy. Mercy is the dwelling place of grace. Grace is the divine empowerment to be who I am and to act from that identity. Grace is an unmerited gift bestowed upon me. It is available for all who seek it.