Reading: Weekly Word
Indeed, if a person thinks he will get more of God by meditation, by devotion, by ecstasies or by special infusion of grace than by the fireside or in the stable that is nothing but taking God, wrapping a cloak around His head and shoving Him under a bench. For whoever seeks God in a special way gets the way and misses God, who lies hidden in it. But whoever seeks God without any special way gets Him as He is in Himself, and that person lives with the Son, and he is life itself.
Meister Eckhart
…all sorrow comes from love of that which loss has deprived me of. If I mind the loss of outward things, it is a sure sign that I am fond of outward things, and really love sorrow and discomfort! My heart and inclination ascribe to creatures what belongs to God. I turn to creatures, whence by nature discomfort comes, and turn away from God, from whom all comfort flows.
Meister Eckhart