you are accepted

I really enjoyed my birthday. So many messages of love, I felt very loved up. And bizarre as it may sound, attending a funeral felt like a real privilege and added a special depth to the day, rememebering such an inspirational man. I suspect there is so much about so many people that we just don't know. It seems a shame to learn things about people in their eulogy and not having taken the opportunity to find out more beforehand. It was interesting to get more of an insight into what inspired him. I'm not someone who understands different branches of theology, but the reading on the back of the funeral order of service interested me as I think it's important that we get a deep sense that we are accepted. The reading was taken from this:

http://www.religion-online.org/showchapter.asp?title=378&C=84

And I can't type it all out on my phone, but here's a bit - "(grace) strikes us when year after year, the longed for perfection of life does bot appear, when the old compulsions reign within us as they have for decades, when despair destroys all hope and courage. Sometimes at that moment, a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying: you are accepted. You are accepted. Accepted by that which is greater than you, and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask for the name now; perhaps you will find it later. Do not try to do anything now; perhaps later you will do much... Simply accept the fact that you are accepted." Paul Tillich.

Today was going to be a day trip out but instead we're going to do school prep and try and attend to my girlies possibly broken toe. Much as I dislike shopping I will seek out the joys and revel in the acceptance.