People Standing All Together

"I thank you, Jesus, for being willing to be disapproved of, so I don't have to try so hard to be approved of and liked.

I thank you for being considered a failure, so I don't have to give my life trying to pretend I am a success.

I thank you for being wrong by the standards of religion and state, so I don't have to be right anywhere, even in my own mind."

Fr. Richard Rohr

"Sacrificial love is central to the Christian faith and was demonstrated perfectly by Jesus, who gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form, he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal's death on a cross”

Philippians 2:7–8

"Be still, and know that I am God! I am exalted among the nations, I am exalted in the earth."

Psalms 46:10

“But take care and watch yourselves closely, so as neither to forget the things that your eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your children’s children—“

Deuteronomy 4:9

"For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water; and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."

Revelations 7:17

"To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD, who addressed the words of this song to the LORD on the day when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love thee, O LORD, my strength."

 Psalms 18:1