It helps, now and then,
To step back and take a long view.
The Kingdom is not only beyond our efforts,
it is even beyond our vision.
We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction
of the magnificent enterprise that is God’s work...
We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not
messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.
--"The Romero Prayer"
--from Inward/Outward
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...but, if we make God, Jesus, the kingdom of heaven to exclusively "other" , too rarefied, then it all becomes
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(thoughts offered in all humility)