Lenten Thoughts – 8 April – Monday of the Fifth week of Lent, Year C
“Praying means giving up your false security, no longer looking for arguments that will protect you if you get pushed into a corner and no longer setting our hope on a couple of lighter moments which your life might still offer.
To pray, means to stop expecting from God, the same small-mindedness, you discover in yourself.
To pray is to walk in the full Light of God and to say simply, without holding back, “I am human and You are God!”
At that moment, conversion occurs, the restoration for the true relationship.
A human being is not someone who once in a while makes a mistake and God is not someone who now and then forgives.
No! Human beings are sinners and God is love.
The conversion experience makes this obvious with stunning simplicity and disarming clarity.”
Fr Henri Nouwen (1932-1996)
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