on passion and suffering and love.

"The passion of Christ is the victory of divine love over the powers of evil, and therefore it is the only supportable basis for Christian obedience. Jesus calls those who follow him to share his passion. How can we convince the world by our preaching of the passion when we shrink from that passion in our own lives? On the cross Jesus fulfilled the law he himself established and thus graciously keeps his disciples in the fellowship of his sufferings. The cross is the only power in the world which proves that suffering love can avenge and vanquish evil. But it was just this participation in the cross which the disciples were granted when Jesus called them to him. They are all called blessed because of their visible participation in His cross"- His suffering, His passion, His love.
--Dietrich Bonheoffer

Last night I lay in the middle of the field outside my house with a guitar and gazed at the stars and worshipped. It was the best. thing. ever. Gods gift to us is grace and it is. so. good.