📿 Walking the Path
This week’s Saturday meditation comes from The Cloud of Unknowing, a spiritual classic written anonymously around the fourteenth-century (Listen to the audio for a longer selected reading).
Take courage, now, and frail mortal though you are, try to understand yourself. Do you think you are someone special or that you have deserved the Lord’s favor? … Your enemy will suggest that you rest on your laurels. But be on guard against this treachery of his. Do not be deceived into thinking that you are a holier or better person because of your great calling or because you have progressed to a Singular way of life. …
The anonymous author continues, “I urge you, then, pursue your course relentlessly. Attend to tomorrow and let yesterday be. Never mind what you have gained so far. Instead reach out to what lies ahead. If you do this you will remain in the truth.” Interestingly, adopting a way of life is the beginning. Without a path (or principles and practices to live by) we are merely wandering.
Contemplation Questions (Pick one or create your own!):
What are the principles and practices that you live by?
How would you describe your “way of life” to a friend?
This Week’s Meditations…
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Thank you for reading/listening this week; I hope you found something useful.
Until next time, be wise and be well,
J.W.
P.S. Feel free to comment, ask questions, or make suggestions!
The Cloud of Unknowing holds special relevance for me to this day.
Returning to our home in Australia from Christmas in my home town, in rural Maine