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It is through giving food to the hungry, drink to the thirsty, care to the sick, company to the lonely, shelter to the homeless, and clothing to the naked that we can find God and find the healing of which Delio writes. But it is not in our power that God resides, but our poverty and the poverty of others.
-- Kyle R. Cupp at Vox Nova
We are then given a quote by Ilia Delio, who has written on the Franciscan perspective on God.
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What would the world be like if Christians actually believed in a humble God? If following a God of poverty and humility led them to abandon their opinions, prejudices, and judgments so they could be more open to love others where they are, like God? Francis went about the world following the footprints of Christ, not so he could look like Christ, but because they were the footprints of divine humility. He discovered that God descends in love to meet us where we are and he found God in the most unexpected forms: the disfigured flesh of a leper, the complaints of a brother, the radiance of the sun, in short, the cloister of the universe. The wisdom of Francis makes us realize that God loves us in our incomplete humanity even though we are always running away trying to rid ourselves of defects, wounds and brokenness. If we could only see that God is there in the cracks of our splintered human lives we would already be healed.
-- Ilia Delio, "The Humility of God"
-- Kyle R. Cupp at Vox Nova
We are then given a quote by Ilia Delio, who has written on the Franciscan perspective on God.
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What would the world be like if Christians actually believed in a humble God? If following a God of poverty and humility led them to abandon their opinions, prejudices, and judgments so they could be more open to love others where they are, like God? Francis went about the world following the footprints of Christ, not so he could look like Christ, but because they were the footprints of divine humility. He discovered that God descends in love to meet us where we are and he found God in the most unexpected forms: the disfigured flesh of a leper, the complaints of a brother, the radiance of the sun, in short, the cloister of the universe. The wisdom of Francis makes us realize that God loves us in our incomplete humanity even though we are always running away trying to rid ourselves of defects, wounds and brokenness. If we could only see that God is there in the cracks of our splintered human lives we would already be healed.
-- Ilia Delio, "The Humility of God"
