"Is there a thought in your heart about anyone that you would not like to be brought into the light? Then renounce it as soon as it comes to mind--renounce every hidden thing that would cause you shame. God has called you to a higher standard. Never dull your sense of being your utmost for His highest--your best for His glory." --Oswald Chambers, from the My Utmost for His Highest Perpetual Calendar.
Each of us will at some point of our lives experience a similar desolation. Like the Mother of God, the events and circumstances of life will offer us not only love, but sorrow. In these moments the witness of the Mother of Sorrows will demonstrate to us that genuine faith is not a merely a comfort, a crutch or a diversion. Faith in Christ does not bring with it exemption from the reality of our existence but grants us access to the divine life in all things- even suffering and even death and it is through precisely these experiences that we learn the extremity of true love.
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