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| Guardian Angel, 1998, Laura James |
<We need to stop trying to protect, to rescue, to judge, to manage the lives around us and remember that the lives of others are not our business. They are their business. They are God’s business. Even our own life is not our business. It also is God’s business. We need to go to God in prayer and leave it to God. It is an astonishing thought. It can become a life-transforming thought. If we unclench the fists of our spirit, we can take it easy and have open empty hands to accept all the fresh gifts God has to offer us. What deadens us most to God’s presence within us, possibly, is the inner dialogue that we are continuously engaged in with ourselves, the endless chatter of doubt, self-recrimination, judgement, worry. I suspect that there is nothing more crucial to true spiritual comfort than being able from time to time to stop that chatter…> <…When we move to be alone in prayer and meditation and have removed our outer distraction, we often find that our inner distractions manifest themselves to us in full force. We often use the outer distractions to shield ourselves from the interior noises. This makes the discipline of solitude all the more important. At issue here is the question: "To whom do I belong? God or to the world?"> <The answer comes through the grace of God, freely given to all, which means something like: you were specifically born because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.> ― sort of Frederick Buechner / Henri J.M. Nouwen / Laura Parsons, sort of
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