Thursday of Week 28
Feast of St Teresa of Avila
"When she was on one of her innumerable journeys across Spain, her horse threw her as she was crossing a river. Soaked to the skin she looked up to heaven and said, 'If this is how you treat your friends, no wonder you have so few of them!' We should bring everything to God in our prayers, even our reproaches. For a reproach, in the end, is simply our way of offering up to God our incomprehension of what he is giving us." from universalis 'about today'
It seems to me that we are often too polite with God. I meet folks in the most gut wrenching and painful times and they are often quick to love and trust God as if the thought of being angry is somehow a sign of diminished faith. And the church does this when we clean up the scriptures. Lectionary editing is a cleaning method. And we do it simply by the way we read. I've caught myself reading angry and lamenting texts with a voice that speaks the opposite.
According to St. Teresa, God can handle it.
St. Teresa of Avila, pray for me.
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