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SUMMARY:LCG Chicago Monthly Meeting 9:00 am CDT
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SUMMARY:Advent Weekday
DESCRIPTION:A SIMPLE SURRENDER TO GOD\nFrom the Spiritual Conferences of John Tauler 5\n◊◊◊\n“You shall be witnesses unto me in all Judea.” Judea means “to confess God” or “to praise God.” We are to be God’s witnesses by confessing God in all our actions\, behavior\, and intentions. And this not merely when all goes well with us\, when we are full of joy and delight and natural enthusiasm. People find it easy enough at such times to think that they are confessing God very well. They seem to know and love God well enough as long as things go according to their own will; but as soon as they meet with terrible assaults\, they begin to wonder what they have been about. They have completely lost their bearings now that suffering has come upon them. \nNow we can see clearly what has been at the root and foundation of their confession: not God\, but their feelings. This is an unstable foundation built on shifting sands. God’s true witnesses\, on the other hand\, stand firm\, rooted in God and in God’s will\, in love and in suffering\, no matter what God gives or what God takes away. Nor do they set great store by practices of their own. \nIt often happens that when people have successfully undertaken some pious practices\, they give much thought to the business of planning them and carrying them out; and so they place great reliance on them and exercise their own activity to the utmost. But God\, in an inalienable love\, often breaks down whatever rests on such a foundation as this by frequently arranging things which run contrary to our desires. If we want to keep vigil\, we are obliged to sleep\, against our will; if we like to fast\, we are made to eat; if we would like to be quiet and at rest\, we have to do quite otherwise. In this way everything that we cling to crumbles at our touch\, so that we may be brought face to face with our own bare and naked nothingness. \nThus we should learn to place all our reliance upon God\, confessing God alone in a simple and uncompromising faith\, and resting upon nothing else at all. For just as worldly and sinful persons are seduced by sensual pleasures\, so these people are held back by a complacency in what they do or what they feel\, and are thus hindered from an absolute and simple surrender to God and from the true poverty of spirit which God wants of them. \n5\nSpiritual Conferences\, John Tauler O.P.\, Herder: St. Louis 1961. pp.97-98.
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