Showing posts with label Meditation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Meditation. Show all posts

26 March 2014

Houseless


“If you judge people, you have no time to love them...

If you can't feed a hundred people, the feed just one.”

Mother Teresa






Here are the words that I hope none of us ever will hear. And the real loss, the pity, is that some will. 

‘Depart from Me, accursed. For I was hungry and you gave Me no food, I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe, sick and imprisoned and you did not care for me.’ And they will answer, ‘Lord, when was it that we saw You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not care for You?’ And He will answer, ‘Truly I tell you, when you did not do it for one of the least of these, you did not do it for Me.’

01 March 2009

Thoughts for a Sunday Evening in Times of Uncertainty


"God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work
to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I may never know
it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next.... I am a link in a chain,
a bond of connexion between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall
do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth
in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and
serve Him in my calling.

Therefore I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever
I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve
Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow
may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of
some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain; He may
prolong my life, He may shorten it; He knows what He is about. He may take away
my friends, He may throw me among strangers, He may make me feel desolate, make
my spirits sink, hide the future from me --still He knows what He is about."

John Henry Newman, Meditations and Devotions