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Sola Fide |
Kneeling in this sainted place of marbled grace and spired holiness, eternity echoes, reverberates through vaulted columns and flickering votives of divinity, as angels gaze with smiles of benign, plaster beatitude. I relax into all-embracing Hush my heart exhales, my worries release into a tangible Presence so deep, so timeless my very soul could surrender to that hot stillness, that peace which passes all understanding. So calm, yet so intimate in its attending. Never has silence spoken so clearly, Never has stillness moved me with such savage yearning. I long to drink of this sacred expansiveness, to taste its divine mystery: The Alpha and the Omega never changing, yet somehow always new. I am only beginning to appreciate that Heart which burns continuously with unrequited passion; beginning to realize that love and sacrifice are necessarily, irrevocably entwined. I am finally starting to understand the boundless depth of a Shepherd’s fierce devotion. To see that He can never rest, never stop searching, until the least of His lambs is safe within His arms. by Lorraine Sautner |
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