Thursday, October 20, 2016

Abba's Child.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/27405.Brennan_Manning
“To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John's Gospel we are told that Jesus was moved with the deepest emotions (11:33)... The gospel portrait of the beloved Child of Abba is that of a man exquisitely attuned to His emotions and uninhibited in expressing them. The Son of Man did not scorn of reject feelings as fickle and unreliable. They were sensitive antennae to which He listened carefully and through which He perceived the will of His Father for congruent speech and action.”
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Brennan ManningAbba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

This individual awoke, fully safe in the knowledge that he can NEVER face execution. So tremendously heartwarming!

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