Sunday, November 11, 2018

God Speaks

There are two ways, and both are hard to travel.
There is the way of the river, but there is also the way of the bridge that I have built to cross that river.

How strange it is that so many still prefer to walk through the water,
even though I have built a bridge for them, a bridge that offers delight,
where all that is bitter becomes sweet, and every burden light.

Those who cross the waters of life by taking the way of the bridge
see light even though they are still in the darkness of their body.
Though mortal, they taste immortality,
Though weary, they receive the refreshment they need
when they need it, in my name.

There are no words adequate to describe
the delight experienced by those who choose the way of the bridge.
While still in this life they taste and participate
in that good which has been prepared for them in the next.

You would be a fool, indeed, to reject such a great good
and choose instead to walk by the lower road
with its great toil, and without refreshment or advantage.

From: Set Aside Every Fear – love and trust in the
Spirituality of Catherine of Siena.
By John Kirvan