One of my favorite women says it better than I ever could!
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| Ilian Rachov- Bulgaria |
It is only
necessary to give ourselves to that life, all that we are, to pray without
ceasing, not by a continual effort to concentrate our minds but by a growing
awareness that Christ is being formed in our lives from what we are.
We must
trust Him for this, because it is not a time to see His face, we must possess
Him secretly and in darkness, as the earth possesses the seed…
We must be
swift to obey the winged impulses of His Love, carrying Him to wherever He
longs to be; and those who recognize His presence will be stirred, like Elizabeth
They will
know His presence, not by any special beauty or power shown by us, but in the
way that the bud knows the presence of the light, by an unfolding in
themselves, a putting forth of their own beauty.
In Mary the
Word of God chose to be silent for the season measured by God.
She, too,
was silent; in her the light of the world shone in darkness.
Today, in
many souls, Christ asks that He may grow secretly, that He may be the light
shining in the darkness.
In the
seasons of our Advent- waking, working, eating, sleeping, being - each breath is a
breathing of Christ into the world.
Caryll Houselander in A Rocking-Horse Catholic
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