Chapter 3
Chapter three beautifully describes the generosity of God expressed in contemplation. Opportunities for reception of the gift abound! This chapter winds down by beginning to teach the reader about the spiritual practice of detachment which is vital to the person who desires to “assume an inner stance” which makes him/her vulnerable to receiving the gift of contemplation.
“Every moment and every event of a person’s life on earth plants something in his/her soul.”
“Every moment and every event of a person’s life on earth plants something in his/her soul.” Every moment plants a seed.
“[Most seeds are lost b/c we are not prepared to receive them.]”
“Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.]”
“The love of God seeks us in every situation and seeks our good.”
“[His love seeks our awakening, which implies a kind of death to our exterior self, thus we will dread his coming in proportion to our identification with and attachment to this exterior self.]”
“I must learn to let go and consent to what is unknown to me namely God and God’s unrelenting love.”
God’s love is in the tortuous heat and the shade of the tree.
“All these things are seeds sent to me from God’s will” p. 17
“If these seeds would take root in my liberty….I would become the love that He is.”
“My food is the will of God.”
“In all that happens my one desire should be to know God’s will for me.” This de-centers the False self.
“[God does not will unnatural, frantic, anxious work.]”
“Insensitivity must not be confused with detachment.”
