GRINDING

Thursday, fifth Sunday of Lent:


Lent has become a grist mill, as my soul goes through this process of breaking down all that is in me so that I might become useful to the One who became food for the hungry and provided water to the thirsty. He could have brought in a threshing machine, to separate the wheat and the chaff, but as He said, "You are already clean because of the Word I have spoken to you." John 15:3

I don't need a bath, the Lord says, I need to be sifted, sorted, shaken and refined; this is all happening at my bidding- I asked God to illumine my heart and my journey. I didn't say I would like what He showed me.

What has God been teaching you recently?


Medicine from Sacred Writings:

"It is the work of God to illumine with a consideration to teach things needful."
St Chrysostom Homilies on First Corinthians Homily XXIX .2 NPNF1; 12,170