Last Quote for my 28th Year
I was watching a National Geographic show earlier, "Name of Heaven," and this quote from Fr. Gregory Boyle really impacted on me.....
"Ancient monks when they felt distressed and very low, even despondent they used to have a trick. They would say one word over and over and over again and the word wasn't God and the word wasnt heaven. The word was "TODAY." And it was a thing that reminded them to stay right here, not to look forward to anything. And if our eyes are set on heaven then we will miss God present in this day. It's one of the great tragedies sometimes.... that people's eyes are set on something beyond this moment and they forget to be compassionate today."
posted by Waves at
11:22 PM
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But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our lufe, we always face a brand new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it laways taks us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to stretch out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.
The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us.
And to save us.
Sorry, that was from his book, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept.
=)
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