I have just ordered a copy of Gerald Vann’s The Pain of Christ and the Sorrow of God, a small spiritual classic published in 1947; but Amazon.com can’t promise delivery for another month or month and a half. I am eager to get hold of this little book because of a sentence that has stayed [...]
Category Archive for 'Lent'
Quotes for the Beginning of Lent
Posted in Lent on Mar 4th, 2007
How Shall I Go to God? It is with our sins that we go to God, for we have nothing else to go with that we can call our own. This is one of the lessons that we are so slow to learn; yet without learning this we cannot take one right step in that [...]
The Joyful Season of Lent
Posted in Lent, Weakness, Power on May 20th, 2005
A number of years ago, one of our older sisters was telling me how grateful she was. “I’m even thankful for my sins,” she said, “because I can see the good that God has brought out of them.” I was surprised, to say the least, since I was far from thankful either for my own [...]
Brush me, O God, with the feathers of your mercy, for I am dusty with pettiness. Day by day in fear my heart collapses on itself. My hours are gray with forgetfulness. See — the coals of my love have already settled into ash. Breathe me into new life, that I may expand in the [...]
I have on occasion heard explanatory comments about people who were sick: “She holds her anger inside.” “He has a poor attitude.” “She doesn’t exercise correctly (or read the right books, or meditate diligently, or . . .).” Of course any number of things may contribute to poor health. But I suspect that the implication [...]