Life in Christ frees us to build intimacy with integrity
When you build in order to build, you are enlarging your tomb. When you write in order to write, you are weaving your shroud. But when you live and breathe seeking always the mercy of God, then an incorruptible garment is woven around you, and you find the sweetness of a heavenly reassurance welling up within you.
The dreams which appear to the soul through God’s love are unerring criteria of its health. Such dreams do not change from one shape to another… they approach the soul and fill it with spiritual gladness… Demonic fantasies, however, … do not keep the same shape or maintain a constant form for long… The safest rule is never to trust to anything that appears to us in our dreams. For dreams are generally nothing more… [ read more ]
Even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
