“The ideal is faith incorporated into our whole life and refashioning it by its influence. It is the shining of faith into a soul which has gradually been made capable of penetrating the mysteries of faith by its attempt to yield itself to what Scripture calls the ‘obedience of faith’. By a lively understanding-that is, the understanding of a heart attuned to the heart of God who speaks to it-the soul will thereby discover living truths, or better still, a single living truth, in what at the beginning seemed a mere conglomeration of enigmas.”
– Bouyer, The Cistercian Heritage
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This penetration by attempted yielding seems so simple a concept, and a consequence uncharacteristic of yielding. Thank you my friend.
You're, right. Which is why I love the line, “soul which has gradually been made capable.” Full stop. That gradual part begins when we're not even born and will continue to our life's end!
This looks like an Incense cedar seedling under a ponderosa pine stand to me. What is significant is the position of the photographer taking the picture-on the knees which is just where God wants one to be.
Good eye, Phil! I took the photo while praying on the grounds of a monastery in the hills of Manton.