I’m off on retreat again! I'll be seeing some of my little friends, I'm sure:
I leave you with this tidbit from
the Sayings of the Desert Fathers:
[Amma
Syncletica] also said, “We must arm ourselves in every way against the demons.
For they attack us from outside, and they also stir us up from within; and the
soul is then like a ship when great waves break over it, and at the same time
it sinks because the hold is too full. We are just like that: we lose as much
be the exterior faults we commit as by the thoughts inside us. So we must watch
for the attacks of men that come from outside us, and also repel the interior
onslaughts of our thoughts.”
That’s certainly true for me.
It’s those uncharitable thoughts about others that sink my ship!
Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me!
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