may you rejoice
"May you find your life in losing it. May you live your life by dying, daily.
May you give it all and keep nothing for yourself. May your treasure chest be filled to overflowing with the priceless crowns of sacrificial devotion. May you give yourself away in a joyful and risky abandon. May you follow the Lamb, even if He takes you up a hill and onto a brutal cross. Especially if He takes you there. May you turn your back on safety and comfort and predictable and soft and pour yourself out like a drink offering of love, on the least of these, on the most of these,
for the death and life of these. May you spend what you cannot keep
to gain what you can never lose. May you awaken to live His dream,
not yours, or your country's, or your family's.
And may you rejoice to hear the applause, which is a weight of eternal glory too heavy to bear."
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