A short reflection by Brent Snyder on Christ as our life.
Transcript
The Son who lives in us loves the Father. He rests in the Father’s love. That communion did not begin with my prayer, and it does not depend upon my ability to sustain it. In Christ, we have been brought into a love already living and moving before we ever found words for it. When I consider that, prayer becomes much less lonely. I am not left to create a relationship with God through the strength of my attention. I have been included in the Son. And I hope this becomes ordinary. I want it to reach the moments when I am interrupted, when I feel misunderstood, when I am tired and someone needs more patience than I seem to have. I want the communion I treasure in quietness to find expression there too.
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