Ponderings

Talking with a woman in church,

last week,

about the Saints and she commented about the

Cross within the life of the Saints being accepted,

surrendered to, martyred and resurrected;

the renunciation of life for crucifixion with Christ.

How this was the pattern of Christian life.

It really struck me.

We are so blessed by beauty

flowers made by God

yet some of the monks in Scetis

in the book

sayings of the desert fathers

never looked around them

and looked only to God.

I was reading in Matthew earlier this week

narrow is the way and few find it.

How much we need to be in church

pray

and seek God's mercy.

Sometimes it is so easy to forget that the path to God

and to His Kingdom

is narrow and few find it.

We must not assume so easily that was are there,

we must seek God's mercy

and ask Him

to show the way...

all the while trusting on His mercy that if we

seek Him, we will find Him...

He will take us to Himself,

His House with many rooms;

narrow is the way and few find it;

May we look to God

and pray for mercy

all our days...