“To get to a state of “all is well” I must be free.”

“The Song of Songs is our soul’s quintessential blueprint. The Hebrews viewed it as a poem of God’s love for His people and of the people’s love as a community for God. Yet, it’s also about each person’s love for God and about God’s love for each person. The path of this life, then, is a path of return and homecoming—and it’s characterized in many ways by longing, yearning, and remembering in our bones that we come from God’s Love. Our deepest desire is to return to that Love. Today, I take time to remember and to honor that I come from Love.”

“I must overcome myself before I can truly forgive other people for injuries done to me. The self in me cannot forgive injuries. The very thought of wrongs means that self is in the foreground. Since the self cannot forgive, I must overcome my selfishness. I must cease trying to forgive those who fretted and wronged me. It is a mistake for me even to think about these injuries. I must aim at overcoming myself in my daily life and then I will find there is nothing in me that remembers injury, because the only thing injured, my selfishness, is gone. Prayer for the Day I pray that I may hold no resentment. I pray that my mind may be washed clean of all past hates and fears.”