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Here lies hidden the great
call to conversion: to look not with
the eyes of my own low self-esteem, but with the eyes of God's
love. As long as I keep looking at God as a landowner, as a father
who wants to get the most out of me for the least cost, I cannot
but become jealous, bitter, and resentful toward my fellow workers
or my brothers and sisters. But if I am able to look at the world
with the eyes of God's love and discover that God's vision is not
that of a stereotypical landowner or patriarch but rather that of
an all-giving and forgiving father who does not measure out his
love to his children according to how well they behave, then I
quickly see that my only true response can be deep gratitude.
—Henri J. Nouwen
See: Psalms 95:2; Matthew 20:12; 1 Thessalonians 5:18.
Midi: A Perfect Heart