Sunday’s Reflection
WHEN THE PRESENT IS DIFFICULT, we too easily forget past experience of God’s bounty, the tables spread with blessing when we were most conscious of our poverty and need. If we choose to remember the grace of God toward us in the past, the present is transformed by hope, and dry places become rich with the soul food for which we long. The gift of memory keeps us on the path. The wilderness of silence and solitude beckons us to discover once again that God loves and yearns for us. We are lured again and again by the Lover of our souls, whose unconditional love always waits to take us back, to forgive all our unfaithfulness.
- Canham
A Table of Delight
From page 17-18 of A Table of Delight: Feasting with God in the Wilderness, by Elizabeth J. Canham. Copyright © 2005 by Elizabeth J. Canham. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Upper Room Books. http://www.upperroom.org/bookstore/. Learn more about or purchase this book.
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