Christ has no body but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours Yours are the eyes with which he looks with Compassion on this world, Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good... Christ has no body now on earth but yours.
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Somehow, I must sit to listen. Standing implies a readiness for action, for the executing of the will. To hear You I must sit down and calm down.
The magpie mind chatters. It doesn't know about stopping. How helpless I feel in its automatic firing, its busy babbling. It is impossible to hear You as long as I am full of sound. I turn this helpless prayer toward You. ... slowly unknowing everything, becoming dark, becoming yielding ... just sitting.
~ from BEING HOME by Gunilla Norris with thanks to Marjorie Michael