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in today’s Gospel, Jesus </b></span>is not offering us one more philosophy of God.
He <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>is offering us the view from the inside of the Trinity. </b></span>And that is
why we should respond to <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>his compelling invitation: "Come to me, all you
who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest."</b></span><br></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal;text-align:start"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>What
everyone wants is rest, but not<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"> in the sense of relaxation</span>. Rest here
means achievement of joy. </b></span>The great illusion is that joy will come from
filling up the ego with goods. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>In fact, it will come from emptying out,
from turning one’s life over to the direction of God.</b></span><br></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal;text-align:start">We
also find <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>in today’s Gospel those extraordinary words: "Take my yoke
upon you and learn from me." </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Jesus himself is bearing the yoke that he
speaks of since he is yoked to the Father, doing only what he sees the
Father doing.</b><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> </span></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Jesus is, in his innermost nature, the one who listens and
obeys.</span></span><br></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal;text-align:start">What
he is saying, therefore, is to stand next to him, just as one ox stands
next to the other as they pull together. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Just as Jesus is yoked to the
Father, so we should be yoked to him, obeying him as he obeys the
Father.</b></span></span></span></div>
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