Brennan Manning's The Rabbi's Heartbeat is excerpts mostly from his best-seller, Abba's Child. I read the book today outside on a bench over a turkey on rye, and I basked in the warmth of the sun and the place Manning is calling us to return: to the breast of Jesus, to his heartbeat, to be like John and lean against his breast and rest in being beloved of God (John 13:23, 25).
"Failure to recognize the value of mere being with God, as the beloved, without doing anything, is to gouge the heart out of Christianity." --Edward Schillerbeeckx, For the sake of the gospel (New York: Crossroad, 1992), p 73, quoted from The Rabbi's Heartbeat.
When we returned in 2001 from Uganda, I asked God to make me a good son, to find my identity as a son of God, rather than viewing myself as shifting from being a missionary to a journalist or writer or editor. I am a son, and I am beloved of God. When I rest in that understanding, when I am increasingly more aware and becoming a son from one degree of glory to the next (2 Cor. 3:18), every other relationship, identifier in my life flows from that.
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