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Robert_Sock
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Lord, take all my thoughts and memories, but provide me the sincere desire to cleave to you with all my soul, heart, mind and strength.
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DBT
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If God took your memory you would have no means to remember Him. If He took your thoughts you would not be able to know Him. So your “desire” would not be possible because love would not possible.
Negative theology can be a very important part of our spiritual lives but the easiest way to abuse it is to lose sight of the opposite side of the coin … affirmative theology. We do not seek to “annihilate” our intellect, will and memory in the modern day literal sense of that word. That would be disordered. Rather, we seek a spirit of detachment with regard to our faculties that leads to a proper balance.
To put it another way: For every act of forgetting we need a corresponding act of remembering. To love God we must first come to know Him.
Dave
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pianistclare
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This is an excellent post.
Print it out.
Tape it to your mirror.
Have a peaceful day, as we remember those who have gone before us.
Print it out.
Tape it to your mirror.
Have a peaceful day, as we remember those who have gone before us.
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GEddie
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Without your mind and memory you wouldn’t be you. What being then would remain to cling to God?
All that then would remain would be your body.
ICXC NIKA
All that then would remain would be your body.
ICXC NIKA
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Robert_Sock
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Saint John of the Cross would know what I mean. Let my mind know God alone!
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tawny
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Amen.
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nuntym
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+JMJ+
The Spiritual Exercises, #234 by St. Ignatius of Loyola
First Point. This is to recall to mind the blessings of creation and redemption, and the special favors I have received.
I will ponder with great affection how much God our Lord has done for me, and how much He has given me of what He possesses, and finally, how much, as far as He can, the same Lord desires to give Himself to me according to His divine decrees.
Then I will reflect upon myself, and consider, according to all reason and justice, what I ought to offer the Divine Majesty, that is, all I possess and myself with it. Thus, as one would who is moved by great feeling, I will make this offering of myself:
**‘Receive, O Lord, all my liberty. Take my memory, my understanding, and my entire will. Whatsoever I have or hold, You have given me; I give it all back to You and surrender it wholly to be governed by your will. Give me only your love and your grace, and I am rich enough and ask for nothing more.’ **
The Spiritual Exercises, #234 by St. Ignatius of Loyola
First Point. This is to recall to mind the blessings of creation and redemption, and the special favors I have received.
I will ponder with great affection how much God our Lord has done for me, and how much He has given me of what He possesses, and finally, how much, as far as He can, the same Lord desires to give Himself to me according to His divine decrees.
Then I will reflect upon myself, and consider, according to all reason and justice, what I ought to offer the Divine Majesty, that is, all I possess and myself with it. Thus, as one would who is moved by great feeling, I will make this offering of myself:
**‘Receive, O Lord, all my liberty. Take my memory, my understanding, and my entire will. Whatsoever I have or hold, You have given me; I give it all back to You and surrender it wholly to be governed by your will. Give me only your love and your grace, and I am rich enough and ask for nothing more.’ **
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