Matthew 22:4 · World English Bible
Again he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My cattle and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding feast!” ’
Love does not tire when the first call is ignored; it sends the reminder again and insists that everything is already finished. Nothing more must be produced, nothing more suffered.
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Love does not tire when the first call is ignored; it sends the reminder again and insists that everything is already finished. Nothing more must be produced, nothing more suffered. The feast is complete, the abundance poured out in full, and the mind is asked only to stop laboring long enough to receive what has been set before it.
The repetition is patience itself. Where the separated mind expects a God who withholds until it is worthy, there is instead a table spread before any worth is shown, and one word waiting. Readiness was never the mind's task; acceptance is.
Servants: the loving thoughts sent once more to reassure the mind that the way home is open. Dinner: the completed gift of union, prepared in full and needing nothing added. Marriage: the reunion the mind is invited to enter freely.
Christian Psychology lens
What am I still trying to deserve that has already been handed to me?
The way forward is subtraction, not addition. Keep taking away, and what remains was always enough.
There is nothing to attain. The polishing you are doing assumes a dirt that was never on the mirror.
You are not on the road to freedom. You are free already, and the effort to become so is the only thing in the way.
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