Life isn't memorable enough to remember everything. It's not like there are explosions all the time, or dog smoking cigarettes.
Unavoidably, the life of contemplation is an everyday life, a life of fidelity in small matters, small services rendered in the spirit of warmth and love which lightens every burden. The sun__ brightness can from time to time (and perhaps often) be hidden in mist and cloud, but that is no reason for laying aside one__ daily work. Contemplation is work, and it goes on working even when the person praying derives no apparent satisfaction from it. Contemplation is a conversation in which I am at pains not to be boring, not to say and think the same thing every day; I use my imagination and creativity to offer God at least something of myself.
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Unavoidably, the life of contemplation is an everyday life, a life of fidelity in small matters, small services rendered in the spirit of warmth and love which lightens every burden. The sun__ brightness can from time to time (and perhaps often) be hidden in mist and cloud, but that is no reason for laying aside one__ daily work. Contemplation is work, and it goes on working even when the person praying derives no apparent satisfaction from it. Contemplation is a conversation in which I am at pains not to be boring, not to say and think the same thing every day; I use my imagination and creativity to offer God at least something of myself.
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