Jesus looked directly at them and asked. “Then what is the meaning of
that which is written: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the
capstone?’ Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but he on
whom it falls will be crushed.” Luke 20:17-18
From that time on Jesus began to explain
to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the
hands of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be
killed and on the third day be raised to life. Peter took him aside and began
to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!” Jesus
turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to
me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.” Then
Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, he must deny
himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life
will lose it, and whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it
be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a
man give in exchange for his soul?”
Matthew 16:21-26
“To face what we are in the end,
we stand before the light
and our true nature is revealed. Self-revelation is annihilation of
self.”
Kathleen Conklin – ‘The Addiction’
we all stand afflicted,
hopelessly addicted,
ravaged and abused,
scourged and inflicted;
infected by the disease;
we choose this road
because that is who we are,
what we have become,
there simply is no other choice,
no other path;
a leopard cannot change
its spots,
a flea cannot become
a dog;
hopelessly addicted,
infected by the disease;
self-induced delusions,
self-abused illusions,
self-taught dreams,
self-righteous justification;
hopelessly addicted,
infected by the disease.
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