August 20, 2006
a quick turn...
Well, Northern Virginia/DC/Baltimore-ish was loverly. I'll try to fill you in later. Suffice it to say that my friends are hitched, I sat on the plane next to a guy named, get this, Tripp. Yeah. He and I share the nickname. I so love home.
I am off in the morning to the monestary. So, here are a couple of things to get you through until then.
Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter theAnd for the more monastic among you...
kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father
who is in heaven.
-- Matthew 7:21 (ESV)_______________________________________________________________
Quotation:
However important it may be to have a creed that is sound,
or an emotion that is warm, the Christian life according to
the Gospels is primarily determined by the direction of the
will, the fixing of the desire, the habit of obedience, the
faculty of decision. If you are determined in your purpose, if
you have the will to do the Will, then with half a creed and
less than half a pious ecstasy, you are at least in the line
of the purpose of Jesus Christ; and as you will to do His
will, may come some day to know the teaching.
... R. G. Peabody
For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;I'll post the sermons from this weekend when I return. Yesterday went well enough. I thought that tonight's was lots of fun. I preached at Reconciler. But I must hie me to a bed now. Until later... Posted by tripp at August 20, 2006 10:05 PM
you will not be pleased with a burnt offering. The sacrifices
of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O
God, you will not despise.
-- Psalm 51:16-17 (ESV)_______________________________________________________________
Quotation:
And now be careful to be found a wise and faithful
servant, and communicate the heavenly bread to your fellow
servants without envy or idleness. Do not take up the vain
excuse of your rawness of inexperience which you may imagine
or assume. For sterile modesty is never pleasing, nor that
humility laudable which passes the bounds of reason. Attend to
your work; drive out bashfulness by a sense of duty, and act
as a master... But I am not sufficient for these things, you
say. As if your offering were not accepted from what you have,
and not from what you have not. Be prepared to answer for the
single talent committed to your charge, and take no thought
for the test... For he that is unjust in the least is unjust
also in much. Give all, as assuredly you shall pay to the
uttermost farthing; but of a truth out of what you have, not
what you have not.
... St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153)