PV writes: "Life is this simple: We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the Divine is shining through it all the time. Thomas Merton."
God is always present, whether we realize it or not or even if we want him to be there or not, but it is us who shuts God out and makes the world a darker place. Even still, God continues to shine his grace on anyone willing to accept it, or anyone willing to take his call, and even those that care less about God than lima beans. As I continue to live my life, I hope to break down the barriers I've set up before God and bring Him in.
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It's necessary to be convinced that God is always near us. too often we live as though our Lord were somewhere far off---where the stars shine. We fail to realize that he is also by our side---always.
For he is a loving Father. he loves each of us more than all the mothers in the world can love their children, helping us and inspiring us, blessing... and forgiving.
How often we've erased the frowns from our parents' brows, telling them after some prank, "I won't do it again!" Maybe that same day we fall again... And our father, with feigned harshness in his voice and a serious face, reproves us, while at the same time his heart is softened because he knows our weakness: "Poor boy," he thinks, "How hard he tries to behave well!"
We have to be completely convinced, realizing it to the full, that our Lord, who is close to us and in heaven, is a Father, and very much our Father.
St. Josemaria Escriva, The Way, 267
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