Tuesday, August 10, 2021

From Adrienne Von Speyr's "Man Before God"

 

a Tree in a flower pot...


The hardest thing required of the believer is to place himself

at the disposal of something incomprehensible, 

something that begins to make sense

               only through love...


Until now he was collecting, gathering, counting and disposing...

Now he is meant to open himself in such a way that 

the hands he holds out to collect 

have to remain apart...

 

He (the believer) is embraced by God

in such a way that he is no longer capable of embracing anything.


He must keep himself as vessel,

and he cannot guarantee what this vessel will contain.


He no longer knows it

because he must allow 

what he had once 

well protected and thought through

        many times over

simply to flow into the infinite

        according to a rhythm that 

              God alone

                   determines ...




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