Status Updates From Our Father

“Thy will be done” chapter hits you hard.

“For forgiveness is a mystical action that restores a lost wholeness so that goodness reigns once more; forgiveness is not a legal action, but a moral one…the restoration of wholeness and love.”

“Perhaps the terrible tragedy of our times consists precisely in the fact that while there is much talk about legality and justice, these societies have almost entirely lost the power and moral beauty of forgiveness.

“Man receives food, that is, life itself, from God. It is God's gift to man and he lives not in order to eat and thereby maintain his physiological survival, but in order to develop in himself the image and likeness of God.”

“But what [man] eats is the gift of God's love, what he participates in is light and glory and joy, and living he lives by everything which God gives him.”

“ [The Gospel] calls "kingdom" the encounter of man with God, God who is fullness of life and the very life of all life, who is light, love, knowledge, wisdom, eternity. It tells us that the kingdom comes and begins when man meets God, recognizes him and with love and joy offers himself to him.”

“In its deepest and original sense Christianity is
religion of fatherhood, which means that it is not founded on intellectual ideals or philosophical deductions, but on the experience of love which floods our whole life, on the experience of personal love.

All of this is implied within the initial appeal
of the Lord's Prayer: "Our Father."