the one and only vital thing.

"our community with one another consists solely in what Jesus Messiah has done to both of us. this is true not merely at the beginning, as though in the course of time something else were to be added to our community; it remains so for all the future and to all eternity. i have community with others and i shall continue to have it only through Jesus Messiah. the more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Messiah and his work become the one and only thing that is vital between us. we have one another only through Jesus, but through Jesus we do have one another, wholly, and for all eternity."

-dietrich bonhoeffer.

burden.

as prophets,

we are overwhelmed by our sympathy for God,
we are burdened by our sympathy for man.

as prophets,

we stand before the people and plead for God,
we stand before God and plead for the people.

as prophets,

we are wearied by the heaviness of sin,
we are carried by the force of this mighty Love.

partnership.

"We must remember that God is involved in our doings, that meaning is given not only in the timeless but primarily in the timely, in that task given here and now. Great are man's possibilities."

-abraham joshua heschel.