It’s been a while since I last posted. I’ve been pretty busy with the holidays and all, and have been neglecting my blogging habits. I intend to resume posting soon; in the meantime I thought I would leave you with a meditation from Thomas à Kempis:
“A man can lift himself above earthly cares by means of two wings, namely, by simplicity and purity. This is a simplicity in our purpose and a purity in our affections. Simplicity looks to God, but purity finds Him and enjoys Him.
If you are interiorly free from all uncontrolled affections good actions will never be difficult for you, and if you desire and seek nothing other than God’s good pleasure and your neighbor’s welfare you shall enjoy interior freedom.
If your heart is right, then every creature is a mirror of life to you and a book of holy learning, for there is no creature—no matter how tiny or how lowly—that does not reveal God’s goodness.
If you are interiorly good and pure you will perceive everything without difficulty and understand it correctly. A pure heart penetrates both heaven and hell.
As a man is within, so he judges what is outside of him. If there be any joy in the world, certainly, the man of pure heart possesses it, and if anywhere there be trials and tribulations, surely, it is the evil conscience that experiences them.
As iron in fire loses its rust and takes on a flaming glow, so the man who turns wholly to God loses his sluggishness and becomes a new man. When a man begins to grow lukewarm in spiritual matters, he fears the least labor and cheerfully accepts consolation from the outside world. But when he begins to overcome himself and walk manfully in the way of God, he takes little account of the things that were formerly burdensome to him.“
Blessings to you all.
