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Scripture: 2 Corinthians 12:10 : Therefore I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities for the sake of Christ; for whenever I am weak, then I am strong. Abridged: It requires a strong faith in the unconditional love of God to be broken like bread and poured out like wine so that we can re-present the living Christ to our neighbor. Meditation: When Jesus initiated what has become known as Holy Communion in the church, he invited his disciples to become like broken bread and poured out wine. Jesus was seeking to illustrate that our movement into brokenness is needed to increase our ability to participate in God’s divine plan and become strong disciples of unconditional love. These are easy words to say, and an ideal that many people would agree expresses an objective in their heart. Yet there is also a counter-objective in the Bible that calls us to be healed and made whole, a language wherein God seeks to make us strong to defeat powers that strive to pull us away from the unity and love of the Christ within us. It requires a strong faith in the unconditional love of God to bring these poles into a common purpose -- to be broken and poured out so that we can represent God in the world and remain firm in our resolve to not yield to the world's distractions. Paul resolves these seemingly contradictory desires most clearly in 2 Corinthians 12:10 when he states, “Therefore I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities for the sake of Christ; whenever I am weak, then I am strong.” When broken, we are made stronger by the Holy Spirit for the purposes of God. Prayer: In your presence, Lord Jesus, we feel comfort and peace. While we are with you, we desire only to feel the light and love that emanates from your heart in our innermost being. In the stillness of meditation with you, ideas of success and failure, likes and dislikes, fall away. All things and all people become precious in your infinite grace. Amen Enter password: .