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Everyday Mystic Theresa Joseph's avatar

In a meditation last July Jesus said to the group I was channeling for: “All atrocities are committed by people with deeply broken hearts. And the only way to heal a broken heart is through an open heart.”

we are asked to keep our heart open even in the face of so much suffering. That is where we find our divinity—in the midst of our humanity. 💝

Whitehorse's avatar

Yes ❤️

Canadian Cassandra✨💗🇨🇦's avatar

Absolutely Beautiful Truth ✨💗

Dawn Klinge's avatar

This is a message that needs to go far and wide. Yes, it's not about payment but presence. Love, meeting us in the wound.

Rev. Dr. Beth Krajewski's avatar

This resonates so deeply! That first "sin," that act of "disobedience" which is essentially unmotivated simply does not reflect the experience of our lived reality. We first feel pain, then act in ways that we imagine will resolve that pain, and when they don't, we push harder and harder. The sin is real, but the ground beneath it is where the healing can happen. Thanks, brother.

RevKarla's avatar

This may be my favorite writing of yours I've read. For me, it's making its way through my brain before I'll allow it to enter my heart. That is no doubt a conditioned response from not trusting something that is truly good because of religious trauma. There is no demand to contort scripture to reconcile what you've said. That feels first like a contradiction, then expansive. I'm committing to revisit this a few more times and let it settle. My inner child who desperately sought a loving God but only found a vengeful one thanks you.

A HEART FOR JUSTICE's avatar

Me too🙏♥️

Beth Ann Kepple's avatar

Could never understand a loving God asking (or making) his Son go thru that. But then I never could understand Satan either, because in some stories in the Bible it almost seems like he’s stronger than God. The Bible confused me a lot.

Everything you wrote did NOT.

A HEART FOR JUSTICE's avatar

I feel the same way. 🙏😁

L'Antro del Rosso's avatar

The problem with the substitutionary penance theology is that it implies that God needs something (like a sacrifice) to go against evil.

But God is exclusively good and loving. Every sin literally dissolves into Him, without the need of the crucifixion.

Jesus said it: mercy I want, not sacrifices.

Krista Wenger Lehman's avatar

This. I feel the truth of this. Thank you!

Marcia Tauber's avatar

Thank you. Right now the world truly needs these words.

Tim Miller's avatar

Beautiful!

Elham Sarikhani's avatar

This moved me.

“The human condition is not first a courtroom, but a wound” feels like the center of it. So much religion becomes cruel when it begins with accusation instead of heartbreak.

I appreciate this vision of Jesus not as an answer to divine bookkeeping, but as love entering the density of human grief without abandoning us there.

And Mary Magdalene matters so deeply here because she stays. She remains present where love appears defeated.

That kind of presence may be one of the holiest forms of faith.

Steve Boatright's avatar

I very much appreciate you writing this, a transformational approach to the scriptural Jesus. Thank you

Kaja Sommer's avatar

Thank you, you describe the Teacher I’ve always loved, & who gently spoke to me in a vision once.🌹 Jesus taught forgiveness & healing. Sometimes healing is given just by being conscious & listening.✨

John C Larson's avatar

Brilliant! Opens up a whole lot of shit i never looked at before. [Yes, I meant to use that word...]

Beth Ann Kepple's avatar

Using that word fit perfectly

Liz Cooledge Jenkins's avatar

So much of this resonates. Thank you for writing.

This line was especially striking to me, since I've been thinking a lot about (well, more precisely, just finished copy edits for my book about) prayer: "Prayer changes. It stops being an attempt to calm down an offended deity and becomes a way of opening the broken places to the love already moving toward them." Beautiful.