Truth to Tell

So there's this book that I have been reading and the others I know that are reading it agree that this compilation of works is undoing us. It is simply called Bread and Wine- Readings for Lent and Easter and is a compilation of over 50 authors.

Lent and Easter are both over, but I am still very much in the middle of the whole of it because of this book.

I will share some with you. There's no dramatic conclusion or tie in with thoughts from me. It's just what has been forming me lately.

From a writing titled Truth to Tell by Barbara Brown Taylor....

This is the opening quote: We say we want to forget the world, but in the depths of our hearts we do not be forgotten by it.- Francois Fenelon

Uh, yep if the truth were told, I am found out by that statement.

Then she writes this:

In regard to the crucifixion: "One of the many things this story tells us is that Jesus was not brought down by atheism and anarchy. He was brought down by law and order allied with religion, which is always a deadly mix."

Then there's this from Jean-Pierre Caussade about surrender:
"Finding the heart pure, trampled and holding nothing back, he communicates his will fully to it, because his love has given it an infinite capacity by emptying it of all created things and making it capable of union with God. O heavenly purity! O blessed emptying! O unreserved submission!...I do not need to add or subtract anything,nor to seek after or mull over anything. It is for you, Lord, to regulate everything: direction, humiliations, sanctification, perfection and salvation- all are your business Lord. Mine is to be satisfied with your work and not to demand the choice of action or condition, but to leave everything to your good pleasure."

Amen and Amen