May 23, 2005

  • "Holiness flourishes in ordered and uncluttered lives; we do not have to fill every waking moment with activity...'Be at peace, then thousands around you will find salvation.' (St Seraphim) We cannot be at peace and be in a permanent rush... Holiness is always life-giving, not life-denying, and we have to be at once firm and gentle with ourselves, finding and holding ourselves to a path in life that nurtures holiness... Henri Nouwen [says] taht we have to be able to articulate the movements of our inner life, to name our varied experiences and no longer be victims of ourselves. Only then can we offer ourselves as a source of clarification to others..." (Brown and Cocksworth)

    and to the one i , the one with whom i share the music...