b. manning on spiritual intimacy and love

There's a monk up in the Genesee Abbey. He's been there 30 years. And a visitor asked him, "Do you still feel as close to God as you did when you went in 30 years ago?" And the monk's glorious answer was, "No, but now it doesn't matter." He was so freed from the need to feel loved that he could indiscriminately accept consolation or desolation, God's presence or God's absence, as one and the same thing. With the rise and fall of my fragile feelings, thank God that the presence of God within me doesn't depend on my fickle feelings, or I'd be in deep caca.

Brennan Manning

Comments

[larry]

Truly we are loved more than we can imagine

[Tom Davis]

Wow! A pastor ends a statement with the word ca-ca:-)