Wednesday, January 25, 2012

this is good work

This week is very different, and very good.  When I get home and fed, I am very ready to sleep.  and I do.  It is a day long pouring out and pouring in.  I get to teach, and I like to teach.

This line of thought now goes back to the mundane, mundane waiting, waiting, waiting, and how that is the real life.  I think it is the only life that allows the buying of oil.  When life is exciting, the circumstances are oily after a fashion.  It is not holy oil, but things are shiny.  Things are not dull.  If we can keep things exciting we can avoid ever knowing that there is no reservoir of oil, only a light temporary sheen.  It may provide a surface and enhance a surface, but there will never be enought to saturate a wick and support a flame.

I have the grace in Christ to live a quiet life of prayer and contemplation.  Thank you, Father.

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