Unattached – Sep. 24, 2020
“Once some robbers came into the monastery and said to one of the elders: “We have come to take away everything that is in your cell.” And he said: “My sons, take all you want.” So they took everything they could find in the cell and started off. But they left behind a little bag […]
Patient Trust – July 28, 2020
Above all, trust in the slow work of God.We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay.We should like to skip the intermediate stages.We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. And yet it is the law of all progressthat it is made by passing through […]
Fearful Longing – July 17, 2020
“Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at […]
Let Nothing Upset You – Apr. 6, 2020
Let nothing upset you;Let nothing frighten you.Everything is changing;God alone is changeless.Patience attains the goal.Who has God lacks nothing:God alone fills every need. –St. Teresa of Avila [Selections for your daily reflections this week come from God Makes the Rivers to Flow: An Anthology of the World’s Sacred Poetry & Prose selected by Eknath Easwaran.]
