Sunday, March 1, 2009

Lectio Divina - Twenty-eight


Suzanne Farnham et al. Listening Hearts: Discerning Call in Community. Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing, 1991, p.33.


Humility is not gained by seeking it directly nor obtained by focusing on one’s faults and sins. Rather, it comes quietly to those who draw close to the Lord. As we experience God’s greatness, we sense our own smallness. When we encounter God’s wholeness, we realize our own incompleteness.


2 comments:

Lindsay Boyer said...

So often we feel or are made to feel that religion is about admitting how bad we are. Yet I don't believe that this feeling is transformational or helps us to be closer to God. This passage expresses very beautifully how transformation really occurs: when we long for God, when we make an effort to spend time with God, our experience of God gently changes us.

Loving God, draw me towards you. Help me turn my face towards you.

Anonymous said...

In You, God, may I become whole. Awomen.