This morning I was reading a publication sent to me by Renovare called, Explorations: Rhythms of Life. In it I read this quote from a contemporary English Benedictine nun named Maria Boulding--
"If you want God, and long for union with him, yet sometimes wonder what that means or whether it can mean anything at all, you are already walking with the God who comes. If you are at times so weary and involved with the struggle of living that you have no strength even to want him, yet are still dissatisfied that you don't, you are already keeping Advent in your life. If you have ever had an obscure intuition that the truth of things is somehow better, greater, more wonderful than you deserve or desire, that the touch of God in your life still you by its gentleness, that there is a mercy beyond anything you could ever suspect, you are already drawn into the central mystery of salvation." (The Coming of God, Chapter 1)
"If you want God, and long for union with him, yet sometimes wonder what that means or whether it can mean anything at all, you are already walking with the God who comes. If you are at times so weary and involved with the struggle of living that you have no strength even to want him, yet are still dissatisfied that you don't, you are already keeping Advent in your life. If you have ever had an obscure intuition that the truth of things is somehow better, greater, more wonderful than you deserve or desire, that the touch of God in your life still you by its gentleness, that there is a mercy beyond anything you could ever suspect, you are already drawn into the central mystery of salvation." (The Coming of God, Chapter 1)
posted by grateful talmid | 6:20 AM
1 Comments:
Seems wild that a nun was the one that wrote this - a nun seems like someone who would be completely insulated and not affected or wouldn't have to struggle with many of the same things we do here in the "regular" world. But I see this is just a misconception but that we ALL struggle.
Guess I never really thought about it.
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