Immerse yourself deeply among people by sharing their life, by friendship and by love. Give yourself to them completely, like Jesus who came to serve and not to be served; you, too, become one with them. Then you will be like leaven which must lose itself in the dough to make it rise.
Little Sister Magdeleine (1898–1989)
Immersed Deeply
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3 responses to “Immersed Deeply”
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Reblogged this on multicolouredsmartypants and commented:
‘Then you will be like leaven which must lose itself in the dough to make it rise.’
So I lose myself to find myself. The most glorious discovery I have made in recent months, years, however long it is… and I’m not saying I am there yet, is that if I lose myself to Christ, if I accept my nothingness, my will as scrawny and silly, if I submit to being subsumed by His will… and my will doesn’t matter any more… then I am filled with joy and peace and wholeness and abundance. My grain-of-sand littleness is absorbed in His universe-bigness and I don’t have to worry about rules, or about sin, or about doing the right thing. I am learning (I am by no means there yet) that to hand the reins of my life over to Him is not a sacrifice at all. It is the Upside Down Kingdom again. I don’t let go of my life; I am absorbed by Life ~ ζωή -
Is this the same reason you’re ‘contemplative in the mud’?
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Probably this is a good quote to summarize what I mean by “contemplative in the mud,” yes. =)
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Contemplative in the Mud 