Daily Meditation: Sunday, July 30, 2006

In our inner life, we are all faced at one time or another …

07/30/2006

In our inner life, we are all faced at one time or another with a desert to cross. The disciple is aware of this and works to lay in supplies of water for such occasions. This water is faith and love. Only faith and love will allow him to survive this ordeal, and even when he is exhausted or half-dead he must never lose them. Such a loss, if it occurs, is due to his lower nature which, not yet completely subdued, awaits its chance to leap on him and lay him low. Even in the middle of a desert, a disciple must be able to say: ‘Lord God, I am in your hands. You have shown me my path, and I walk toward you and with you. I love you and want to serve you. Lord, help me.’ If he loses his faith and his love, it is because he never really had them, or only superficially. When a virtue is truly yours, it is bonded to you. It is part of your very being, and you cannot lose it.