My God whose ways and
thoughts are higher than my ways and thoughts.
Why do you call me
Lord, Lord and do not do what I say? Luke 6:46
What I desire: To
live before God with true freedom.
Ignatius understands “indifference” to be the condition of
balance, equilibrium, equipoise, unbiased, unprejudiced, and without partiality.
He doesn’t us to simply leave something behind, but find something–the person
of Jesus Christ. Indifference means we are so consumed by love of Christ (which
is actually Christ’s love for us) that we are free of all else.
Turn your eyes upon
Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face.
And the things of
earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of His glory and grace.
One of the biggest things, or perhaps The Thing of the past
two months, has been this peeling off of the Eustace dragon-hide layers. With
the hope that it will leave me very tender to those still stirrings in my heart
that I have come to recognize as His voice.
And in this time of deafening silence, my very ears are
ringing with the quiet, may I be deaf to The Other Voices and mute to my
desires and only looking full in His wonderful face.
Yes, and emptiness
itself can birth the fullness of grace because in the emptiness we have the
opportunity to turn to God, the only begetter of grace, and there find all the
fullness of joy.
Yes, Father, You long
to transfigure all,n o matter how long it takes. You long to transfigure all.
Because eucharisteo
is how Jesus, at the Last Supper, showed us
how to transfigure all things–take the pain that is given, give thanks for it,
and transform it into a joy that fulfills all emptiness. -Voskamp
No comments:
Post a Comment