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"Okay, this is the deal - either you see through the eyes of God, and hear through the ears of God, and live through the heart of God, or you don't. I've seen those who do, have known some of them, have had the incredibly humbling experience of working alongside them. I visited another ministry in another town tonight, and saw them there also, in the hearts of a few daring rebels who put on a Halloween night dinner for a bunch of folks trapped in absolutely desperate poverty; one prayed over a quietly pained woman, holding her in her arms, before taking her to the hospital - and we became strangely still in that moment, we became who we were meant to be. These are living beatitudes, servants who are incomprehensibly beautiful, who perfume the air around them with the loving fragrance of God's presence, who have a peaceful gentleness and humility you see nowhere else. These messages written in love are immediately recognizable for their mystical, otherworldly appearance as they walk and live and work in the glory that surrounds the very being of God.

You betray everything you thought you knew about Christianity by doing this kind of work. You meet that betrayal in the only way you can, at midnight in a garden of prayer, with the name of friend and a kiss upon your lips, while your boisterous friends lie sleeping in in the dew, but a few feet away from the Christ, the Messiah." (Today at the Mission)