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The wonderful thing about meditation for Christians is that you don’t have to try to be good anymore.
If you see yourself holding grudges or being mean-spirited then I think maybe you do have to try to control yourself, but that’s one of the fruits of meditation.
You don’t have to try to be good.
You simply grow in the consciousness that you are good because God is good and everything around you is good.
Anything that is not good is the result of unconsciousness, and those results can be terrible, but they are the results of unconsciousness.
Eternity is with us, inviting our contemplation perpetually, but we are too frightened, lazy, and suspicious to respond; too arrogant to still our thought, and let divine sensation have its way.
It needs industry and goodwill if we would make that transition; for the process involves a veritable spring-cleaning of the soul, a turning-out and rearrangement of our mental furniture, a wide opening of closed windows, that the notes of the wild birds beyond our garden may come to us fully charged with wonder and freshness, and drown with their music the noise of the gramophone within.
Those who do this, discover that they have lived in a stuffy world, whilst their inheritance was a world of morning-glory: where every tit-mouse is a celestial messenger, and every thrusting bud is charged with the full significance of life.
It seems to me that people have vast potential.
Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks.
Yet most people don’t.
They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
We shouldn’t seek the ideal community.
It is a question of loving those whom God has set beside us today.
They are signs of God.
We might have chosen different people, people who were more cheerful and intelligent.
But these are the ones God has given us, the ones he has chosen for us.
It is with them that we are called to create unity and live a covenant
The Lord often has his prophets climb mountains to converse with Him.
I always wondered why
He did that, and now I know the answer: when we are on high, we can see everything else as small
. Our glory and sadness lose their importance.
Whatever we conquered or lost remains there below.
From the heights of the mountain, you see how large the world is, and how wide its horizons.
