What I really lack is to be clear in my mind what I am to do, not what I am to know…. The thing is to understand myself, to see what God really wishes me to do…. What good would it do me to be able to explain the meaning of Christianity if it had no deeper significance for me and for my life ?
If we are to be creators, we must begin to think in terms of a whole new work ethic. The reward will not be in higher wages, another rung on the ladder, the acclaim of our peers, but in creative forces which flow within us and accomplish in our own lives the gracious work of transformation. We exercise our own gifts and somewhere along the way we ourselves become patron saints of gifts.
As you came near the spring you would marvel, seeing that the water was endless, as it constantly grabbed up and poured forth. Yet you could never say that you had seen all the water. How could you see what was still hidden in the bosom of the earth? Hence no matter how long you might stay at the spring, you would always be beginning to see the water…. It is the same with one who fixes his gaze on the infinite beauty of God. It is constantly being discovered anew, and it is always seen as something new and strange in comparison with what the mind has already understood.
Go with the flow … as it's been said.
Love the captured motion in this one Mac!
This is a beauty Mac.
Thanks for the serenity picture, A Mac, as always.
What I really lack is to be clear in my mind what I am to do, not what I am to know…. The thing is to understand myself, to see what God really wishes me to do…. What good would it do me to be able to explain the meaning of Christianity if it had no deeper significance for me and for my life ?
Soren Kierkegaard
If we are to be creators, we must begin to think in terms of a whole new work ethic. The reward will not be in higher wages, another rung on the ladder, the acclaim of our peers, but in creative forces which flow within us and accomplish in our own lives the gracious work of transformation. We exercise our own gifts and somewhere along the way we ourselves become patron saints of gifts.
Elizabeth O'Connor
As you came near the spring you would marvel, seeing that the water was endless, as it constantly grabbed up and poured forth. Yet you could never say that you had seen all the water. How could you see what was still hidden in the bosom of the earth? Hence no matter how long you might stay at the spring, you would always be beginning to see the water…. It is the same with one who fixes his gaze on the infinite beauty of God. It is constantly being discovered anew, and it is always seen as something new and strange in comparison with what the mind has already understood.
Gregory of Nyssa
Life is but a flowing from one reality to the next, perchance we may at some point stop but for a second and see....
Thank you brother for the true glimpse into reality.
NWM
Thank you brother for the true glimpse into reality.
And thank you for for nailing down the concept.