God cannot fill what is full. He can fill only emptiness -- deep poverty -- and your "Yes" is the beginning of being or becoming empty. It is not how much we really "have" to give -- but how empty we are -- so that we can receive fully in our life and let Him live His life in us.
Mother Teresa
qtd. from a letter in Come Be My Light
I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in right relationship with my heavenly Father nor a sappy spirituality that portrays God as such a benign teddy bear that there is no aberrant behavior or desire of mine that he will not condone. I want a relationship with the Abba of Jesus, who is infinitely compassionate with my brokenness and at the same time an awesome, incomprehensible, and unwieldy Mystery.
Brennan Manning, Ruthless Trust
24 May 2008
becoming empty
Posted by kirsten at 12:08 PM
Labels: darkness, point vierge, surrender
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What an awesome quote! And I find it a little...scary? coincidental?...that I've been thinking of trying to find this book lately. K-girl, we're still on the same page.
Love you.
i think we are, sarah. and as unpleasant as the becoming empty is, it is a comfort to know that it is happening so we can receive more of Jesus, to be more of Jesus wherever, whoever we are.
love you, girl!
i know empty. at least, i'm beginning to understand what it means to give myself over to it...to let go little by little.
me too, terri. just beginning ...
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