“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” —George Orwell
Working hard for holiness?
“I have never understood why ‘hard work’ is supposed to be pitiable. True, some work is soul destroying when it is done against the grain, but when it is part of “making” how can you grudge it? You get tired, of course, but the struggle, the challenge, the feeling of being extended as you never thought you could be is fulfilling and deeply, deeply satisfying.” Rumer Godden
Training hard…for holiness?
Solitude
Solitude
“In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still; it goes deeper and makes for itself a deeper groove, delves. Delve means ‘dig with a spade’; it means hard work. In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated to heights but it cannot be deepened; you have to deepen it yourself.” Rumer Godden
Homily: The Wedding at Cana
God notices
“Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.” Alexander Pushkin
God and others…do notice!
Looking?
“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” J.R.R Tolkien