Allshorn: to heal the separation

Sunday, July 3, 2022
    Feast of Thomas the Apostle
Meditation:
    Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
    —Colossians 3:13 (NIV)
Quotation:
    [Continued from yesterday]
    And let us be grateful beyond words for this: that God will not let us alone until we have learnt it and stand by His side. He troubles us, He brings His disturbing light back and back to us, showing us how coarse and heavy the dying self, seeking her own, is. How horrible it is that any feeling of unforgiveness, accepted and held on to, towards our brother, drives God from our side; how quickly we must do all we can to heal the separation, because we are out in the cold and the dark indeed, if divorced from that Love.
    ... Florence Allshorn (1887-1950), The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn, London: SCM Press, 1957, p. 67 (see the book)
    See also Col. 3:13; Matt. 5:44-45; 6:14-15; Mark 11:25; Acts 13:37-39; Eph. 4:32; 1 Pet. 3:9
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You bind the fellowship together with Your love. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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