On What Support

Over the last week I’ve been reading a meditations devotional by Lev Gillet. The back cover explains it this way: “By juxtaposing daily human routines with related incidents in the life of Christ, the meditations teach us about transfiguration, and about being heirs of God’s very nature, capable of transmitting the intention of God to this world, by sharing in the Cross of Jesus.”

Although I am still digesting this morning’s reading, since I wrote on the topic of pantheism the other day, I thought the following thoughts were appropriate to share.

Poor children, you want to manage without Me. What then will you look to for support?

Poor child, thou thinkest to escape my by plunging into what thou dost believe to be nature, into what thou callest nature. But what thou dost clasp is not nature in its truth, in its depth.

Thou thinkest to live a fuller life by estranging thyself from the Love which goes beyond all limits and loves beyond the visible. Thou desirest to give thyself exclusively to the visible. Thou dost speak of asserting thy personality, of realising thyself. Thou dost speak of earthly foods, and expect from them harmony and joy.

But thou wilt run up against the refusal with which all the elements of creation will oppose thee. The universe gives no peace to him who professes to separate any situation or person from total Love.

Thou seekest the support of reality. Thou dost conceive of nature alone as being what is real. Thou dost want to lean on a reed, and this reed will pierce thy hand.

In a world where everything is bound by a Love that is limitless, all the creatures which thou dost desire to separate and grasp by themselves, without reference to absolute Love, will withdraw from thee, one after another. Thou wilt be left alone, wounded, lying helpless on the road. Everything will abandon thee at the moment when thou dost abandon Me.

Poor child, whom wilt thou find to save thee, if not Me? Whom wilt thou find to love thee, if not Me?