Luke 12:6 · World English Bible
Luke 12:6 Meaning Aren’t Five Sparrows Sold for Two Assaria
Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by God.
What does Luke 12:6 mean?
Nothing that love has created can fall out of its care, however small and worthless it looks to a world that prices things. The ego teaches that a mind can be overlooked, abandoned, left to fend for itself in an indifferent universe, and from that belief comes all the anxious grasping and all the fear of being lost.
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Nothing that love has created can fall out of its care, however small and worthless it looks to a world that prices things. The ego teaches that a mind can be overlooked, abandoned, left to fend for itself in an indifferent universe, and from that belief comes all the anxious grasping and all the fear of being lost. Yet what love made cannot be forgotten by love.
The least and cheapest thing stands for every part of the mind that feels too slight to matter, and not one of them slips from remembrance. A mind that lets this be true of itself stops defending against a loss that was never possible, because it was always held.
Sparrows: the parts of a mind that feel too small and worthless to matter, yet not one of which love has ever forgotten
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Live Luke 12:6 today
- Think of the part of yourself you consider least impressive and speak to it kindly for a moment today. That part was never left out of anything.
- Pay real attention to one person the day overlooks, the driver, the cashier, the quiet one in the meeting. Treating no one as small is how you learn you are not small either.
- When you are anxious about money or security, name the fear and then name one thing that has held you through worse. The grasping loosens when you remember you were never dropped.
Where am I living as though I had been forgotten?
The same truth in other traditions
Sufism · Rumi
The one who made you did not forget you on the way. You are being carried even on the days you feel dropped.
Tao Te Ching 34
The Tao gives itself to the smallest things without weighing their worth. Nothing is too slight to be held.
Zhuangzi
The world calls some things useless. The useless tree stands for centuries while the prized one is cut down.
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