“God looked over the world for an
empty heart – a heart that
was empty like a flute on which He could pipe a tune ...
and the emptiest heart He could find was the heart of a lady.
Since there was no self there, He filled it with His Very Self.”
- Caryll Houselander, The Reed of God (1944)
was empty like a flute on which He could pipe a tune ...
and the emptiest heart He could find was the heart of a lady.
Since there was no self there, He filled it with His Very Self.”
- Caryll Houselander, The Reed of God (1944)
"In Advent
Christ rested in Mary still,
silent, helpless, utterly dependent. The Creator trusted Himself to His
creature.
From the moment when the
Christ life is conceived in
us, our life is intended for one thing, the expression of His love, His love for
God and for the world.
... We must allow the Christ life to grow in us in rest.
Our whole being must fold upon Christ's rest in us, as the earth folds upon the
seed."
Caryll
Houselander, The
Passion of the Infant
Christ
(London:
Sheed and Ward, 1949)
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