“Repent and believe in the gospel.” The Good News is him. So now it’s time to make a decision. Servant of God Madeleine Delbrel writes that we should set out without a road map to discover God, knowing that the way is sure and has no end. Don’t try to find him through new techniques but let yourself be formed by him in the poverty of a banal life. Monotony is a kind of poverty: accept it. Don’t look for beautiful trips in your imagination. May the varieties of the Kingdom of God suffice for you and bring you joy. Don’t be overly concerned about your life because to be that concerned is a kind of wealth: then old age will speak to you of birth and death of resurrection. Time will seem to you like a small fold in the vastness of eternity you will judge everything in the light of the eternal.
– If you love the Kingdom of Heaven with genuine love, you will rejoice in the fact that your understanding is at a loss in the face of the divine, and you will try to have more faith.
– If your prayer is stripped of tender feelings, you will know that we don’t reach God through our nerve endings.
– If you are short on courage, you will rejoice at being well-fitted for hope.
– If you find people boring and your heart wretched, you will be happy to have within you that charity that cannot be perceived.
When stripped of everything, you can only see in the world an unfinished house and in yourself total poverty with no façade; think of those shadowy eyes open in the center of your soul and fixed on things that are beyond words, for the Kingdom of heaven is yours.