Nothing is ever lost (Cynthia Bourgeault)

  Mercy, which we experience … as power, intelligence, purposive goodness, is really none other than the body of Christ of which we are, inevitably and inalienably, living cells.  The body of Christ, the body of hope, the Mercy:  they are all one and the same thing.  They are the unknown heart of God flung outward into accessible form so that nothing contained within that great outpouring can ever be lost or disappear – no idea, no possibility, no creature, no loved one.  Nothing is ever lost.  The root energy of love sustaining all, the light which drives creation and the light by which we know it, become one in Christ.

--Cynthia Bourgeault, Mystical Hope

Image source:  Egino Weinert, The Mercy Seat, bronze, https://www.creatormundi.com/product/seat-of-mercy-cross/