Beautiful break of light through the clouds over the Pacific as I drove the boys home from soccer practice tonight. . .reminded me of a simple truth: God's love can pierce any clouds that hover in our lives--the Spirit can break through life's difficulties if we give in and relinquish.
From St Oswald today:
To be born from above of the Spirit of God means that we must let go before we lay hold, and in the first stages it is the relinquishing of all pretence. What Our Lord wants us to present to Him is not goodness, nor honesty, nor endeavour, but real solid sin; that is all He can take from us. And what does He give in exchange for our sin? Real solid righteousness. But we must relinquish all pretence of being any thing, all claim of being worthy of God's consideration. . .When a man really sees himself as the Lord sees him, it is not the abominable sins of the flesh that shock him, but the awful nature of the pride of his own heart against Jesus Christ. When he sees himself in the light of the Lord, the shame and the horror and the desperate conviction come home.
dark winter cloud-dread
suffocating soul and mind
relinquish my claim
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