I recall one of our brothers describing a long prayer walk he took on the mountain paths surrounding our Little Portion Hermitage. The brother asked God, "Why do you allow poverty?" After a long silence, God answered the brother with a still, small voice that shook his soul: "Why do you allow poverty?"
John Michael Talbot
The Lessons of St. Francis
"We may suffer one humiliation after another, until it begins to dawn on us that he is everything."
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Been there done that! Why is it so hard for a human to simply "BE" in God?
I know what you mean. Ever since I was a kid, it has taken my being hit over the head with a two-by-four to get my attention...God included...and now you know why the top of my head looks like the surface of the moon !!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhen St. Francis said, "Poverty is an extraordinary way of salvation, since it nourishes humility, the root of perfection," he was speaking of self-imposed poverty, not the poverty of those less fortunate. Francis often went about the countryside half naked because he would always share his tunic with someone who asked for it. I'll bet he didn't own any "Gucci's!"
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