Spiritual Direction

In another place he speaks of both ourselves and God, carrying a “united witness” (Romans 8:16) to our divine identity—as “children of God,” “heirs,” and “coheirs with Christ” (8:17).2 When we stopped trusting this inner and united witness, we had no support in believing the central Gospel message itself—that we share in the same identity as Jesus

unworthiness. Render to God the things that are God’s (see Mt 22:21) and attribute to yourself what is yours. That is, give thanks to God for his grace, ascribe to yourself only sin, and reflect that you must atone for your sins because of the punishment which is due.

That he had placed his sins between him and God, to tell Him that he did not deserve His favors, but that God still continued to bestow them, sometimes taking him by the hand and showing him to the court of Heaven, that all could see the wretch He was pleased to honor.

There is joy in the journey precisely when we don’t try to make a home out of our car, so to speak. There is love on the road when we stop loving the road. There are myriad gifts along the way when we remember it’s a way. There is delight in the sojourn when we know where home is.

Hatred is the sign and the expression of loneliness, of unworthiness, of insufficiency.

unknown. Only when he has the courage to step into the darkness, as O’Donohue depicts it, does the light to guide him to the next step reveal itself.

“You cannot be your own light; you can’t, you simply can’t. . . . We are in need of enlightenment, we are not the light.”

Light is the mother of life. The sun brings light and colour. It causes grasses, crops, leaves and flowers to grow. The sun brings forth the erotic charge of the curved earth; it awakens her wild sensuousness.