(20 Aug 2013, Cultivating Your Inner Life by Edmund Chan)
"People try to find meaning in life from outside or from within themselves. Yet, true meaning in life can only be found from above. Because we are spiritual beings, all of us have an inner quest for something that is ultimately real. Something deeply spiritual. Something eternal.
...The first process of spiritual formation is our deep search. Born out of our hunger for reality... At the heart of this deep longing is the search for God. Psalms 46:10, "Be still and know that I am God." This is the starting point."
The Prayer of Augustine (from On the Trinity)
“O Lord our God, we believe in You the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit…Directing our purpose by this rule of faith, so far as we have been able, so far as You have made us to be able, we have sought You, and have desired to see with our understanding what we believed; and we have argued and laboured much…
O Lord, the One God, God the Trinity, whatever we have said in [this class]…that are of You, may those who are Yours acknowledge them; but if anything is of our own, may it be pardoned both by You and by those who are Yours. Amen.”
(21 Aug 2013,Cultivating Your Inner Life by Edmund Chan)
"Are you struggling with God's will in your life? Don't resent the struggle of the will of God. To resent the struggle does not resolve it. It is part of your spiritual formation. It is a necessary part of the journey. Instead, grow through it.
It is in the struggle that our illusions are exposed. Our need for God is awakened. The key is to understand what the will of the Lord is. And to do it.
This calls for the posture of Full Surrender."
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