Lectio Divina,  Reflections

Your Own Grace

God is working on you in order that you may no longer be a child, tossed about by every wind, a prey to external influences. He has given you your own grace, your own nature (insofar as it is good), your own distinctive character. You are therefore required to be yourself and not anyone else. Live according to your own nature; inwardly without restriction; outwardly in so far as external conditions permit. I would compare you to a sailor; he has no doubt as to the port for which he is making and if he is obliged to tack, it is in order to make his port. It is not that he has changed his mind; on the contrary, he makes use of the changing winds in order that their very changeableness may bring him to his port.

From Letters of Direction: Thoughts on the Spiritual Life
by Abbe’ De Tourville
1939, Dacre Press

~ S.K. Orr

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