no one will trust jesus

how can we learn to trust and begin with the foundation of what galatians proclaims: grace and freedom from God, through Jesus, and accelerated by the Holy Spirit.

we trust ourselves...our efforts...our regimen...our work. we embrace our faithfulness as the thing we will trust to be good with God. we are not taking actions prompted with gratitude because of grace...we are making sure we have all the bases covered, as if there was something Jesus has not accomplished.

i was reading something about God's love and our experience of it in the work of julian of norwich. she wrote back in the 1300's and cared significantly about grace.

"We pray to God because of his holy body and precious blood, his blessed Passion, and his most dear death and wound. As the body is clad in clothes, and the flesh in skin, and the bones in the flesh, and the heart in the whole, so are we clothed, body and soul, in the goodness of God and enfolded in it. Our lover desires that our soul should cling to him with all its might, and that we should ever hold fast to his goodness."

i want to cling, to live life that way...enfolded in the love of God. in that experience i may discover what it means to live free and to trust the lover of my/our soul.

--td