Quiet Time Notes

Notes from my daily Quiet Times with God

Desire's Journey - Letting Go (part 6)

July 29th, 2010
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With beauty, we need not fear indulging here
There is not a possessive quality to it
You can love the landscape without acquiring the real estate

Beauty is the closest thing we have to fullness without possessing on this side of eternity

Two kinds of losses in life:

  1. Shared by all mankind - accidents,  fate, acts of God
  2. Only know by the pilgrim - losses that we choose. We give up something that wasn't ours to begin with

Spiritual surrender is not resignation
Not choosing to care longer
Not an attempt to get beyond the suffering

It is surrender with desire


Key Phrase: Beauty is the closest thing we have to fullness without possessing on this side of eternity