Anger was blinding me. I could feel its hardness and constriction in my throat, gut, and heart. What then could I do? The wisdom of the desert tradition urges one to wait when they feel anger arise. "The antidote to anger is patience. To be silent and wait till the heart is stilled and the right action is prompted by the Holy Spirit is the way out of the affliction of anger."
Monday morning, I woke up with an inner whisper – God with us. I turned to the whisper.
The Way of Christ
Every human being is made in the image and likeness of God. Each of us comes into this world bearing the infinite, and we all have unlimited potential to manifest this divine presence in the world as vessels of divine light, life and love. Yet, without conscious practice and discipline, our human experience of God is fleeting at best, and one of the great agonies of modern life is a pervasive sense of God’s absence. Even those who have momentary breakthroughs and encounters with God find that, without a discipline, these experiences remain rare, transitory, and elusive. So, to unlock our human potential as bearers of the divine image, we need a ‘way’ that can guide us to outwardly become who we truly are in the depths of our being.
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