Impatience and self-reproach only foster our complacency and entangle us ever more deeply in the net of self-centered introspection.
But there is no more time to observe ourselves in meditation than there is in the Christian life as a whole. We should pay attention to the Word alone and leave it to the Word to deal effectively with everything.
For may it not be the case that it is none other than God who sends us these hours of emptiness and dryness, so that we might once again expect everything from God's Word?
"Seek God, not happiness" - that is the fundamental rule of all meditation. If you seek God alone, you will gain happiness - that is the promise of all meditation.
- from Life Together 88-89
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I am doing this book this year, as well. I am just blown away. Almost every point he makes I have to read twice.
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