06/12/2024
Good morning! Lucy keenly listens to the sounds of a cold morning - 20 degrees here in southern Wisconsin.
She already chased a bunny ๐๐ and is watching for her next! โบ๏ธ๐
It's St Nicklaus Day! ๐โฃA day to thank God for the kind and generous souls who have brought us comfort and aid during the rough patches of our lives, as did the great St Nick for the three destitute daughters of the legend.
On this day of Advent, ponder this beautiful section of "The Imitation of Christ." How can we thirst more for the interior life of our hearts close to the Immaculate Heart? โค๐๐๐ฟ
Book III Ch. 54, para. 17
"Nature desires to know secrets, andย to hear news; desires to appear abroad, and to have experience of many things by the senses; longs to be taken notice of, and to do those things which may procure praise and admiration. But grace cares not for the hearing of things new or curious, because all this springs from the old corruption, since nothing is new or lasting upon Earth. Grace teaches, therefore, to restrain the senses, to avoid vain complacency and ostentation, humbly to hide those things which are worthy of praise and admiration; and from everything, and in every knowledge, to seek the fruit of utility, and the praise and honor of God. She desires not to have self, or what belongs to self, exalted, but wishes that God may be blessed in His gifts, who bestows all things through mere love."
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