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Unembarrassed to receive the incredible gift

Jean Jones Andersen
November/December 2019 (Vol. XXXII, No. 10)
Now let your great and wise and powerful
be as the poor and foolish little ones:
unembarrassed to receive the incredible gift,
and not knotted in guilt over your lack of worth,
and not struggling to "earn" what cannot be deserved,
but just simply, joyfully accepting of all
that is given so humbly and gladly in Love.
~ from ENCOUNTER AT BETHLEHEM by Jean Jones Andersen
Encounters At Bethlehem
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