As we come again to the beginning of Lent, a question we all perhaps tend to ask ourselves is: “What does God desire from me?” From my own experience and from my relations with others, it seems to me that we have an ingrained tendency to think we need to “measure up” to a standard in order to please God. And therefore Lent, rather than being a joyful time of accompanying Christ through the desert and preparing to celebrate the great mystery of his Passion and Resurrection, becomes a prolonged experience of our own failure and inadequacy…
Categories: Meditations
Joshua
I know that your heart yearns, little one, to create something beautiful, a testament of love, a reflection, in the dimness of this world, of the radiant beauty of my own eternal light. I know the longing within to give birth without, the desire to create, sharing in eternal creativity. I want you to know, beloved, and to feel that the greatest masterpiece which I desire for you is the unspeakable beauty which is you yourself. You, the one whom I infinitely love, are the icon, transparent to my shining glory, enfolded in my grace, a blaze of fiery light bursting through the eyes, a figure whose countenance, whose heart, whose life is a reflection of the life, the heart, the face which is my own.