Sunday, October 21, 2012

Eating the Bread of Anxious Toil

The following passage is taken from one of last week's thematic readings from A Guide to Prayer for All Who Seek God:

"As we grow older, we tend to become control freaks. We need to control everybody and everything, moment by moment, to be happy. If the now has never been full or sufficient, we will always be grasping, even addictive or obsessive.

"If you're pushing yourself and others around, you have not yet found the secret of happiness. It's okay as it is. The moment is as perfect as it can be. The saints called it 'the sacrament of the present moment.'"

-Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs

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