Genesis 26:3 · World English Bible
Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
To sojourn is to hold the present lightly, as one who is passing through and need not grasp. The mind that stays where love has placed it is promised a companion that never leaves, and a blessing that was never conditional on where the body wandered.
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To sojourn is to hold the present lightly, as one who is passing through and need not grasp. The mind that stays where love has placed it is promised a companion that never leaves, and a blessing that was never conditional on where the body wandered. What is given is the whole inheritance of peace, extended without limit to all that the mind will ever bring forth.
The oath was sworn before, and love keeps every promise it makes to itself. The mind is not building toward a reward it might miss; it is receiving what was already guaranteed. The gift is certain because the Giver does not change.
Land: the present ground the mind is asked to inhabit lightly, trusting rather than seizing it Seed: all the thoughts the mind will bring forth, the extensions of itself that share in whatever it receives Countries: the boundless inheritance of peace promised to the mind, a wholeness no border can contain Abraham: the earlier awakening in the mind whose trust becomes the ground on which the present promise stands
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What am I gripping that I could simply hold?
Hold things with an open hand. Clutching does not make them stay, it only makes the losing hurt more.
Never say you have lost anything, say you gave it back. You were always a guest here, and a guest does not grieve the house.
The one who does not grasp loses nothing. What is held lightly cannot be pulled from your hands.
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