Luke 13:34 · World English Bible
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!
The saddest bondage is a mind that attacks the very thoughts sent to save it, and here love grieves without condemning. The messengers of truth are struck down not because they threaten the mind but because they threaten the ego, which mistakes its own healing for an enemy and stones what would gather it home.
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The saddest bondage is a mind that attacks the very thoughts sent to save it, and here love grieves without condemning. The messengers of truth are struck down not because they threaten the mind but because they threaten the ego, which mistakes its own healing for an enemy and stones what would gather it home. The refusal is not power; it is the one thing love cannot override, the choice a mind makes against its own peace.
Love offers shelter continually and waits to enclose every frightened thought in warmth, yet it will not force the wings upon a mind that will not come. This is the whole tragedy of separation, said plainly: the door of love stands open, the arms are already spread, and only the mind's own unwillingness keeps it out in the cold.
Jerusalem: the mind that longs for peace yet attacks the very thoughts that would bring it, the self at war with its own healing Prophets: the loving thoughts sent to wake the mind, struck down because the ego mistakes its rescue for a threat Hen: love itself, the tender teacher that would gather every frightened thought into warmth and shelter Children: the scattered thoughts of the mind that love longs to draw together and protect Wings: the shelter of love, the safety the mind is offered continually and refuses only by its own unwillingness
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What good thing have I been refusing, and what am I protecting by refusing it?
The door has been open all night. You are the one who keeps knocking from inside, telling yourself it is locked.
Help can be offered but never installed. What we do with what is held out to us is the one thing nobody else can decide.
A man shot with an arrow who refuses the doctor until every question is answered dies of the arrow, not of the questions.
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