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08/24/2002 Entry: ""

The Mountaintop has a timely reminder that throwing out old computer kit can have dire consequences.---Probably the most moving blog entry I've ever read.---Thanks to Ian's Messy Desk for this link to a 130 year old take on the "Prayer of Jabez".---

"As for spiritual life: what I object to about "theSpiritual Life" is the fact that it is a part, a section, set off as if it were a whole. It is an aberration to set off our "prayer" etc. from the rest of our existence, as if it were sometimes spiritual, sometimes not. As if we had to resign ourselves to feeling that the unspiritual moments were a dead loss. That is not right at all, and because it is an aberration it causes an enormous amount of useless suffering.Our "life in the Spirit" is all-embracing, or should be. First it is the response of faith receiving the word of God, not only as a truth to be believed but as a gift of life to be lived in total submission and pure confidence. From the moment that I obey God in everything, where is my "spiritual life"? It is gone out of the window, there is no spiritual life, only God and His word and my total response."Thomas Merton The Hidden Ground of Love

Posted by waspman @ 08/24/2002 10:14 AM CST