What are you afraid of? Let God act. Abandon yourself to Him. You will suffer, but you will suffer with love, peace and consolation. You will fight, but you can carry off the victory, and God Himself, after having fought with you, will crown you with His own hand. You will weep, but your tears will be sweet, and God Himself will come with satisfaction to dry them. You will not be free any longer to give yourself up to your tyrannic passions, but you will sacrifice your liberty freely, and you will enter into a new liberty unknown to the world, in which you will do nothing except for love.
~François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon
And some of us, by His grace, actually are given the gift of giving up on ourselves. We, at first, despair of any hope that we can make our lives work. Then we realize that that old man has to die. He has no place in our lives. He is like a cancerous limb that must be amputated that the rest of the soul might live.
While it sure doesn’t feel like it, this pain we feel is just like the pain an amputee feels “in” a missing limb. It feels real, but it is a false signal from a non-existent entity. It is a shadow impulse running around in the wiring our mind. And sometimes, it is an impulse injected by forces of evil outside the new creation into which He has made us.
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