Recalling cynically those politicians who gush on about gallantry and sacrifice in warfare, E.B. Sledge, a veteran of the World War II campaigns at Peleliu and Okinawa wrote, “The words seemed so ri… — anonymous
We are free to act boldly because
we are safe.
We are safe because we are at rest.
We are at rest because we have
been forgiven.
We are forgiven because we have
come to know that Jesus meets us
in our weakness, not our strength.
And in the strength of our weakness
we find our security, and we lose our
fears, which is what allows us to act boldly.
Such is the journey, ever onward, of
spiritual formation for God’s coming Reign.
©Ken Sehested @ prayerandpolitiks.org. Communion meditation.
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