You Must Be Ready To Give Up

I Suddenly Saw That All The Time It Was Not I Who Had Been Seeking God, But God Who Had Been Seeking Me. I Had Made Myself The Centre Of My Own Existence And Had My Back Turned To God.

I Liked The Solitude And The Silence Of The Woods And The Hills. I Felt There The Sense Of A Presence, Something Undefined And Mysterious, Which Was Reflected In The Faces Of The Flowers And The Movements Of Birds And Animals, In The Sunlight Falling Through The Leaves And In The Sound Of Running Water, In The Wind Blowing On The Hills And The Wide Expanse Of Earth And Sky.

In His (christ's) Surrender On The Cross All The Pain And Agony Of Mankind Was Concentrated At A Single Point, And Passed Through From Death To Immortality, There Is No Pain Of Any Creature From The Beginning To The End Of Time Which Was Not 'known' At This Point And Thus Transmuted. To Know All Things In The Word Is Thus To Know All The Suffering Of The World Transfigured By The Resurrection, Somehow Reconciled And Atoned In Eternal Life. It Was God's Purpose Which He Set Forth In Christ As A Plan For The Fullness Of Time, To Unite All Things In Him, Things On Heaven And Things On Earth'.

I Was Being Called To Surrender The Very Citadel Of My Self. I Was Completely In The Dark. I Did Not Really Know What Repentance Was Or What I Was Required To Repent Of. It Was Indeed The Turning Point Of My Life.

Above All We Have To Go Beyond Words And Images And Concepts. No Imaginative Vision Or Conceptual Framework Is Adequate To The Great Reality.