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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:A reading from the Spiritual Conferences of \nJOHN TAULER \n◊◊◊ \n“You shall be witnesses unto me in all Judea.” Judea means “to confess \nGod” or “to praise God.” We are to be God’s witnesses by confessing God in all \nour actions\, behavior\, and intentions. And this not merely when all goes well \nwith us\, when we are full of joy and delight and natural enthusiasm. People find \nit easy enough at such times to think that they are confessing God very well. \nThey seem to know and love God well enough as long as things go according to \ntheir own will; but as soon as they meet with terrible assaults\, they begin to \nwonder what they have been about. \nThey have completely lost their bearings now that suffering has come \nupon them. Now we can see clearly what has been at the root and foundation of \ntheir confession: not God\, but their feelings. This is an unstable foundation built \non shifting sands. God’s true witnesses\, on the other hand\, stand firm\, rooted in \nGod and in God’s will\, in love and in suffering\, no matter what God gives or what \nGod takes away. Nor do they set great store by practices of their own. \nIt often happens that when people have successfully undertaken some \npious practices\, they give much thought to the business of planning them and \ncarrying them out; and so they place great reliance on them and exercise their \nown activity to the utmost. But God\, in an inalienable love\, often breaks down \nwhatever rests on such a foundation as this by frequently arranging things \nwhich run contrary to our desires. \nIf we want to keep vigil\, we are obliged to sleep\, against our will; if we like \nto fast\, we are made to eat; if we would like to be quiet and at rest\, we have to do \nquite otherwise. In this way everything that we cling to crumbles at our touch\, so \nthat 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 \nalone in a simple and uncompromising faith\, and resting upon nothing else at \nall. For just as worldly and sinful persons are seduced by sensual pleasures\, so \nthese people are held back by a complacency in what they do or what they feel\, \nand are thus hindered from an absolute and simple surrender to God and from \nthe true poverty of spirit which God wants of them.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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