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A Question of Conscience
Are you dead, my guide?
Or have you simply sunk into the muck
that creeps upon these inner corridors,
drowning in helpless demise?
The glass is obscured and the
bright moon has faded into the mist
while I, like a blind hand groping,
stand trembling in this night,
waiting.October 28, 1988, Curridabat, Costa Rica
Part of the continuing Respectful American series, a selection of writings from my travel journals from Central America in 1988
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A quotation from Brennan Manning
In effect, Jesus says the Kingdom of His Father is not a subdivision for the self-righteous nor for those who feel they possess the state secret of their salvation. The Kingdom is not an exclusive, well-trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there. No, it is for a larger, homelier, less self-conscious cast of people who understand they are sinners because they have experienced the yaw and pitch of moral struggle.
Brennan Manning (1934-2013) American author, laicized priest, theologian, speaker [Richard Francis Xavier Manning]
The Ragamuffin Gospel, ch. 1 “Something Is Radically Wrong” (1990)More about this quote: wist.info/manning-brennan/8368…
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