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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE DEEPEST NEED OF ALL \nFrom “The Eternal Promise” by Thomas Kelly2 \n◊◊◊ \nIs God your passion? Do you long for Him and rejoice in Him and find \nlife meaningful only to the degree you are in His Presence and He is in your life? \nDo you keep close to the Divine Center\, the Inner principle counting all else as \nloss? For a depth of commitment such as mild men do not know\, I speak in \norder that you may hear Him speak in you the same message. Out of such lives \nwill the world be reborn\, will the church be reborn… There will you find rest for \nyour souls\, and power\, and peace\, and joy unspeakable and full of Glory. Hasten \nunto God. \nI have spoken with deep feeling\, for I am convinced this is the deepest \nneed of all. We…have become earthy. We are more at home with humans than \nwe are with God. We have men of burning social passion\, but not so many that \nburn for God\, who long for God\, who go down deep into the Waters of His life\, \nwho call to us\, “O taste and see that the Lord is good.” Social reformers we have \nnow\, men who are great in their contribution to social thinking… But this epoch \nof history is weak in great prophets of the inner life\, great voices who cry in the \nwilderness\, “Prepare the way of the Lord within your hearts.”… \nStrip monasticism; strip it of its retreat behind walls from much human \nneed… and there is left\, in Bernard of Clairvaux and Francis of Assisi\, a God- \nhunger\, and completeness of renunciation of all else in the world in comparison \nwith the life that is hid with Christ in God. Such a passion for God as leads \nmen…to leave father and mother and all the world…until deep relations with \nGod have been found… Such men and women\, not with social techniques\, but \nwith God-motivations born out of deep immersion in the ocean of the Love of \nGod… Down at the base of life\, for all such people\, would be a fellowship in a \ncommon Life which is the Light within every man who is kindled and enflamed \nby God. \nDo not misunderstand me. There is a practice of the presence of God \nwhich is done on the run\, in the busiest of days… Little prayers and \ncommunion; ejaculation of surrender and joy and exaltation… And most of our \nlives can be lived this way\, as divine conversation of our soul with God\, going \non behind the scenes all the time. But then come crucial periods in life when the \nquest for God grows hot\, when the hot breath of the Hound of Heaven is at our \nheels\, when the heart cries out\, “Give me the Presence or I die.” And these are \nthe times when we get beneath the conventional mildness of average religiosity\, \nand find Him more fully\, who is dearer than life itself. From these men and \nwomen will come the profound return to religion…the love of God and neighbor\, \nwhich is so desperately needed. \n  \n2 Kelly\, Thomas. The Eternal Promise. New York: Harper & Row\, Publishers\, 1966. 116-118.5 \n 
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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