Food for Thought

Some thoughts provoking thoughts that I read recently:

'How can we ask his help without being with him? And how can we be with him without often thinking of him? And how can we often think of him without forming a holy habit of doing so?'Brother Lawrence (17th century monk)

I am like an oarsman rowing against a current. My will-pressure must be gentle but constant, to listen to God, to pray for others incessantly, to look at people as souls and not as clothes, or bodies or even minds. The moment the pressure on the oar ceases, i drift, and downward... "Let go and let God" does not fit my experience. "Take hold and keep hold of God" is what it feels like to me. There is a will-act, and I can feel the spiritual muscles growing from rowing! - Frank Laubach