WCCM Benedictine Oblates are encouraged to read a designated portion of the Rule daily, and to write a brief, personal response. I hope that this blog will support our Oblate community in this practice. Please, keep blog entries brief and in a first-person ("I") voice. Refrain from discussing, offering an opinion, or commenting on other entries. Simply consider how a particular section of the Rule is speaking to you in your present circumstances.
A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.
Astrid Lindgren
Let me change a few words because this quote resonates with me.
A spiritual life without reading, without the Word of God would be no spiritual life. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place within my heart where I can go and find the rarest kind of joy. In the “complete silence”, let me hear “only the reader’s voice”,(RB 38.5) which is Christ’s, speaking to me the Word of God.
A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.
ReplyDeleteAstrid Lindgren
Let me change a few words because this quote resonates with me.
A spiritual life without reading, without the Word of God would be no spiritual life. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place within my heart where I can go and find the rarest kind of joy. In the “complete silence”, let me hear “only the reader’s voice”,(RB 38.5) which is Christ’s, speaking to me the Word of God.