Its Fénelon Friday!
LETTER 7: True Goodness Is Only Reached by Abandonment
Evil circumstances are changed into good when they are received with an enduring trust in the love of God, while good circumstances may be changed into evil when we become attached to them through the love of self. Nothing in us or around us is truly good until we become detached from the world and totally abandoned to God. So, even though you are now in these bad circumstances, stances, put yourself confidently and without reserve into His hand. I would give anything to see you in better circumstances. But if evil circumstances have taught you to be sick of the love of the world, then that is good. That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison. I pray for you with all my heart.
Francis Fénelon, Let Go (New Kensington: Whitaker House, 1973).
Learning To Be Full Of Grace And Truth. 
Six months ago I wouldn’t have understood this. Since my second attempt to die I understand fully how our darkest times can be turned to our brightest in the simplicity that is God and the complexity that defies reason of God’s love. I am not worthy and yet beyond reason He loves me. Simple as faith.
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Fenelon is not for the faint of heart or for the timid of soul. He says more in his few words than most say in whole books and goes deeper than most are willing to go. He has a gift for saying hard true things in ways that are full of grace. We are not always ready to hear the truth or understand the truth. But God has a way of bringing it around again when we are, doesn’t He!
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