A beautiful meditation...
DYING TO SELF (a meditation, author unknown)
When you are forgotten, neglected, or purposely provoked and you don’t sting and dwell on the hurt, the insult or the oversight, but your heart is at peace, being counted worthy to suffer for Christ
–THAT IS DYING TO SELF.
When your good is spoken of as evil, when your wishes are crossed, your advice disregarded, your opinions ridiculed, when you reach out and the door is closed in your face and you refuse to let anger rise in your heart, or even defend yourself, but take it all in patience and with love
– THAT IS DYING TO SELF.
When you lovingly and patiently bear any disorder, any irregularity, any unpunctuality, any interruption or any annoyance; when you stand face-to-face with folly, wastefulness, spiritual insensibility and endure it as Jesus endured
–THAT IS DYING TO SELF.
When you are content with any food, any offering, any climate, any people, any clothing, any shelter
– THAT IS DYING TO SELF.
When you never care to refer to yourself in conversation, or to record your own good words and when you can truly love to be unknown
– THAT IS DYING TO SELF.
When you can see your brother prosper and have his needs met and you honestly rejoice with him in spirit and feel no envy, nor question God, while your own needs are far greater and in desperate circumstances
– THAT IS DYING TO SELF.
When you can receive correction, reproof, encouragement, advice or exhortation from “one of less stature than yourself “and can humbly submit inwardly as well as outwardly, finding no rebellion or resentment rising up within your heart
– THAT IS DYING TO SELF.
Dear Father, Son and Holy Spirit, bring me to a place of humility before the cross so that I willingly die to myself in order that I may live in, with and through you alone . Amen.
This was shared by Father James OFM ~ Catholic Priest in Persona Cristi in Facebook years ago
DYING TO SELF (a meditation, author unknown)
When you are forgotten, neglected, or purposely provoked and you don’t sting and dwell on the hurt, the insult or the oversight, but your heart is at peace, being counted worthy to suffer for Christ
–THAT IS DYING TO SELF.
When your good is spoken of as evil, when your wishes are crossed, your advice disregarded, your opinions ridiculed, when you reach out and the door is closed in your face and you refuse to let anger rise in your heart, or even defend yourself, but take it all in patience and with love
– THAT IS DYING TO SELF.
When you lovingly and patiently bear any disorder, any irregularity, any unpunctuality, any interruption or any annoyance; when you stand face-to-face with folly, wastefulness, spiritual insensibility and endure it as Jesus endured
–THAT IS DYING TO SELF.
When you are content with any food, any offering, any climate, any people, any clothing, any shelter
– THAT IS DYING TO SELF.
When you never care to refer to yourself in conversation, or to record your own good words and when you can truly love to be unknown
– THAT IS DYING TO SELF.
When you can see your brother prosper and have his needs met and you honestly rejoice with him in spirit and feel no envy, nor question God, while your own needs are far greater and in desperate circumstances
– THAT IS DYING TO SELF.
When you can receive correction, reproof, encouragement, advice or exhortation from “one of less stature than yourself “and can humbly submit inwardly as well as outwardly, finding no rebellion or resentment rising up within your heart
– THAT IS DYING TO SELF.
Dear Father, Son and Holy Spirit, bring me to a place of humility before the cross so that I willingly die to myself in order that I may live in, with and through you alone . Amen.
This was shared by Father James OFM ~ Catholic Priest in Persona Cristi in Facebook years ago
