"Prayer and Love are learned in the hour when prayer has become impossible and your heart has turned to stone." Thomas Merton
What an encouraging thought. How wonderful to hear that recognizing my emptiness and inability to love can be my best step toward God. I'm so thankful today that the tired, anxious mess that I am can be viewed not as a failure who desperately needs to revise her entire life plan, but a woman poised to learn how to truly love God and others-- that the fact that I am bewildered and empty can be looked at as the first step in new growth.
Oh Lord, help me to remember that in quietness and trust is my strength.
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