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Hold the contradiction?
Paradox
Question of the day:
How does one learn to hold the contradictions?
Jesus is giving us a win-win scenario, but what we always do with the gospel is make it into a win-lose. That’s the only way the dualistic mind can think. You’re either in or you’re out.
That’s why the world does not love us, because we don’t know how to include, how to forgive, how to pour mercy and compassion and patience upon events as God—thank God—does with us.
God’s grace plays the middle, expands the middle, redeems the middle, and if that’s not true, what hope is there? What hope is there if we don’t learn how to hold the contradictions?
from Holding the Tension: The Power of Paradox
From: Center for Action and Contemplation
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