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20 January 2011

on sorrow

from this morning in Streams in the Desert-
Sorrow makes us move more slowly and considerately and examine our motives and attitudes.  It opens within us the capacities for heavenly life, and makes us willing to set our capacities afloat on a limitless sea of service for God and for others.

Oh that I would see through those eyes.  Yesterday I read this terribly disturbing news story, that made me not just sorrowful but also physically ill.  And not long later my sinful and selfish response in a family situation grew an evening of discord.  My reaction to sorrow is to retreat.  May I better see the sea of service ahead of me, and be ready to move forward.

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