To realize that you are safe and happy standing at God's side, with His love
encompassing you because you are forgiven; too happy to take offense any
more; too much in love with life to want to be made miserable with an
unforgiving heart, and knowing that now every conflict is a chance to learn
more of the exceeding beauty of Love: that is worth living for, and surely
worth dying to this misery-making self for. And let us be grateful beyond
words for this: that God will not let us alone until we have learnt it and
stand by His side. He troubles us, He brings His disturbing light back and
back to us, showing us how coarse and heavy the dying self, seeking her own,
is; how horrible it is that any feeling of unforgiveness, accepted and held
on to, towards our brother, drives God from our side; how quickly we must do
all we can to heal the separation, because we are out in the cold and the
dark indeed, if divorced from that Love.

The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn
Florence Allshorn


Katherine
I Lift My Eyes Ministries
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