Mercy had changed what the world appeared to me as. The world had been changed by what I understood. No longer a world to be grabbed at or controlled but a world to be listened to, to be prayed for, and above all to be served as Christ served it—that is, by gentleness and by blood, by struggle and sweat and tenderness. It was not to be fixed, managed, controlled. It was to be patiently, quietly transfigured by attention and regard. A world to be transfigured by offering. A world we have been asked to serve so Christ might be revealed. A world we have been asked to offer ourselves to, our
...more
