Metanoia

Prodigal: These are for you!

Me: They look delicious! I wanted to share something that made me focus on Christ.

This is from the book The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself–a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman (a so-called clerical somebody), a righteous or unrighteous man….when in the fullness of tasks, questions, success or ill-hap, experiences and perplexities, a man throws himself into the arms of God….then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, that is metanoia and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian.

Psalms 37:2

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

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