CHAPTER 1: WELCOME, YOU WHO SEEK GODSunday.
Welcome sister, welcome brother, you who freely made the choice to journey together with us so, you may find your own way. We offer you this rule, not to force you into servanthood but to make you free, not to leave you in anxiety, but so love can multiply. This rule doesn’t coerce you to a life constraint by rules but to help you live a life in loving-attention. The rule doesn’t pretend to force you but wants point you in a direction, in your searching for a life fulfilled by love. Together with us, you will journey, journey in seeking GOD in all and everything. Mon. To seek GOD, is mostly to let GOD find you. HE is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. HE is the God of Jesus of Nazareth, Christ. He is your God, because you are His. Tue. Choosing for GOD is to become aware that you are known and loved by GOD this even from before you were given a name. Choosing for GOD is faithfully giving yourself over to the Other. Letting your life be build on this invisible fundament. To be carried by this choice as a child is carried in the lap of it’s mother. Wed. Don’t talk to much about GOD, but live in the certainty that He has written your name in the palm of His hand. Live your human mission in the liberating certainty that nothing in the world can divide you from the love GOD has for you. Thu. In Jesus of Nazareth, GOD especially reveals to us how much He seeks us, and how GOD has absolutely chosen for our happiness. In Jesus of Nazareth, a Man/Person reveals to us, how completely you can be GOD’s own: how much humanity and freedom how much courage and compassion a person, a human can posses if that person has been found by GOD and given himself or herself over to GOD. In His destiny lies also your future, paved through sin and death, towards communion and love, towards imperishable glory and life. Fri. In your daily life through the eyes of faith you will recognise Him from moment to moment, especially in encountering other people created in His image and likeness and in the love that Jesus is Himself. But even if it seems that there are neither signs nor words from Him, you will recognise Him, His absence is full of the mystery of His endless greatness. The absence can help you not to hold on to self-created images of Him. Sat. Do not loose courage, seek Him in all people and things until the day you meet Him face to face. As sure is the coming of the dawn, as His coming is, as sure is the late rain in autumn, as His coming is. If you stay within the love, you stay in GOD, and you do not walk in darkness. Your heart, day and night, it can be fulfilled by the lovely presence of the Lord: then you come a live. So, live in that joy and hope without anxiety or any sign of fear reconciled with yourself and others in an endless respect and gratitude: because God’s goodness for you is eternal.
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