Posts Tagged ‘fruits of the spirit’
Peace
Peace: Peace offers us a pervasive sense of contentment that comes from being rooted in the Holy. It is a state that endures beyond the ups and downs of life, beyond the emotions of joy and sorrow. At the deepest level one knows that all is well. ― from Thomas Keating, Fruits and Gifts of…
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Joy
Joy is an abiding sense of well-being based on the experience of a conscious relationship with the Divine. Flowing from Joy comes freedom to accept and be in the present moment. Let us remember what the 14th century mystic, Julian of Norwich proclaimed, “The fullness of joy is to find God in everything.” Joy is…
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Love
Love: Agape, Charity. This is a self-giving love. Through the Fruit of love, we are being invited to participate in God’s unconditional love. We learn to live from Jesus’s commandment, “to love another as I have loved you.” This kind of loving is much more demanding. We accept people just as they are because Chris…
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