Scripture

Revelation 3:20 (NIV)

"Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me."

Refrain

God waits for my yes.

Quote

Denise Levertov, from Annunciation

"The engendering Spirit did not enter her without consent. God waited.

She was free to accept or to refuse, choice is integral to humanness.

She did not cry, 'I cannot. I am not worthy,' Nor, 'I have not the strength.' She did not submit with gritted teeth, raging, coerced. Bravest of all humans, consent illuminated her. The room filled with its light, the lily glowed in it, and the iridescent wings. Consent, courage unparalleled, opened her utterly."

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Scripture

Luke 1:38 (NRSVUE)

Then Mary said, "Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word." Then the angel departed from her.

Refrain

I open myself to what God wants to bring to birth in me.

Quote

Meister Eckhart

"We are all meant to be mothers of God. What good is it to me if this eternal birth of the divine Son takes place unceasingly, but does not take place within myself? And, what good is it to me for the Creator to give birth to his Son if I do not also give birth to him in my time and my culture? This, then, is the fullness of time: When the Son of Man is begotten in us."

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Scripture

Romans 1:20 (NIV)

For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

Refrain

God is more than any image I have been given.

Quote

Richard Rohr, from The Universal Christ

"Although Jesus was clearly of the masculine gender, the Christ is beyond gender, and so it should be expected that the Big Tradition would have found feminine ways, consciously or unconsciously, to symbolize the full Divine Incarnation and to give God a more feminine character — as the Bible itself often does."

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Scripture

Isaiah 45:15 (NIV)

Truly you are a God who has been hiding himself, the God and Savior of Israel.

Refrain

God is at the depth of all things, including me.

Quote

Richard Rohr, from The Universal Christ

"I doubt if you can see the image of God in your fellow humans if you cannot first see it in rudimentary forms in stones, in plants and flowers, in strange little animals, in bread and wine, and most especially cannot honor this objective divine image in yourself. It is a full-body tune-up, this spiritual journey. It really ends up being all or nothing, here and then everywhere."

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Scripture

Ephesians 2:4–6 (NIV)

But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions — it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.

Refrain

The image of God cannot be extinguished.

Quote

Walter Wink, from Jesus and Nonviolence: A Third Way

"There is no one, and surely no entire people, in whom the image of God has been utterly extinguished. Faith in God means believing that anyone can be transformed, regardless of the past. To write off whole groups of people as intrinsically racist and violent is to accept the very same premise that upholds racist and oppressive regimes."

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Scripture

Hebrews 4:15 (NIV)

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are — yet he did not sin.

Refrain

Christ is present in the depth of all things.

Quote

St. Bonaventure

"As a human being Christ has something in common with all creatures. With the stones he shares existence, with plants he shares life, with animals he shares sensation, and with the angels he shares intelligence."

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Scripture

Philippians 2:7 (NIV)

Rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.

Refrain

Christ came for all of me.

Quote

Nikos Kazantzakis, from Report to Greco

"One day the religion of Christ will take another step forward on earth. It will embrace the whole man, all of him, not just half as it does now in embracing only the soul."

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Scripture

Genesis 2:15 (NIV)

The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.

Refrain

The gate of heaven is everywhere.

Quote

Thomas Merton

"We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and God is shining through it all the time. God manifests Himself everywhere, in everything — in people and in things and in nature and in events. The only thing is we don't see it. I have no program for this seeing. It is only given. But the gate of heaven is everywhere."

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