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He and I; our journey together


markdohle

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He and I; our journey together


(Retreat 5-7 August 2016)

This year we will have our last “He and I” retreat.  I guess for a devotional book it is one of my favorites.  Gabrielle Bossis was an intelligent woman who unknown to her friends had a deeply intimate relationship with the Lord Jesus.  In her book she shared some of the communications.  The reason her book is still read is because of how the depth of God’s love is presented.  People talk of God’s love, or say “God is love”, yet to experience it is another thing altogether.  I have found the book healing and have some on hand to share with some of the retreatants that I talk to who might benefit from it.

I go through periods of deep sadness and yes at time anger about the world situation and how I am also a part of its problems.  So yes mankind does have an ugly side to it.  One day when praying and going through deep struggle over the deep suffering that mankind rains upon itself, I opened the book at random and came up with this quote.  It was dated 1 April 1939.  So it was at the beginning of the 2nd World War.  Gabrielle was thinking about the ugliness of mankind and received this message:

 

“I love all the same, just as you are.
“Serve, serve others.  My mother said
“I am the servant”.

 

The messages can be very simple, yet profound if thought and prayed about.  There is the saying “Love God, love others”.  I guess it goes along the same lines.  The easier way, though fraught with pain and destruction is to not serve one another, but to hate and revile, fight and denigrate.  This is done in our public debates as well as in families, schools and on the world stage.  It is illogical the way we deal with one another, yet we continue.

Yet to serve, now that is another matter.  The last sentence in the small simple message above is…”My mother said “I am the servant”.  Yes Jesus is the servant of all, he washes our feet and kisses them, and he longs to heal us all.  He loves all and calls us (me) to allow his grace and love into our hearts so as to allow our humanity to flower to escape the prison of hatred and isolation.  Yet this revelation of God’s personal presence in each soul is often denied, rejected and even reviled.  He calls us to become ‘Him’ in the world.

I do go through dark periods and it is Christ Jesus who draws me out of it.  I would drown if not for his grace, if he did not reach down and draw me from the raging sea that is sometimes my inner life. 

He loves us all the same, imagine that.  One day perhaps I will be able to look on my enemy and love him as Christ Jesus loves him.  I still don’t understand but continue to pray.  I guess I love this book so much because it helps me to slowly reach that goal.  Who can withstand the tenderness of God once it is experienced?

So it is with sadness that I say goodbye to this retreat as we have the last one in the beginning of August. 




 

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