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[lilyforchrist]

Wow, I can't believe I haven't checked here in several days. It's been a while though. I've been cutting back on internet time, and it has been nice. One of my sisters has a birthday Sunday, and I'm working on making her an apron. She loves to cook. And the material I'm using is so cute! It looks sort of vintage, and has people on it cooking, with

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[augustine]

Very well written. :-)

He was mighty and powerful and had authority, yet He humbled Himself in coming to the people. In reading these chapters with that perspective, it seemed more real, more personal, and I kept thinking of the love He has for us, so strong that He humbled Himself here on earth to guide and instruct us, and ultimately, to die for us.

"What is more humble than the King of all creation entering into communion with our poor nature? The King of kings and Lord of lords clothes himself with the form of our enslavement; the Judge of the universe comes to pay tribute to the princes of this world; the Lord of creation is born in a cave; he who encompasses the world cannot find room in the inn...the pure and incorrupt one puts on the filthiness of our nature and experiences all our needs, experiences even death itself."

-Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335- c.400), Oratio I in beatitudinibus, (quoted in Navarre Bible: Captivity Epistles)