Friday, September 22, 2023

THE GIFT OF DISCOMFORT...PRAISE, REPEATEDLY

Sometimes I think we choose to be alone because it is safe. To be comfortable in our isolation is our greatest poverty. -- Ilia Delio, Franciscan scholar 

The Delio quote sent chills up my spine...truth does that. 

The first sentence, "we choose to be alone because it is safe," felt comforting; the second, "comfort in our isolation is our greatest poverty," shot that down.

The juggernaut is that aloneness is invited in by self-will to counter fear...of being left alone.

Browsing my blog, I came across this from an October 2015 post: Praise is our welcome mat...always out, always stepped on, still welcoming.

There. The solution to my juggernaut comes via praise along with love and laughter. I give praise, i.e., thank you, to God for my being alone for it is my gateway to happy.

The path to happy is through praise...the road to a head full of free is through praise...the way to a faith that works is through praise. -- same October 2015 post

Everything old really is new again...or, polished a tish, it's readily reusable.

Thank you.

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