Thought of the Week
“There is great virtue in practicing patience in small things until the habit of Advent returns to us...”
—Caryll Houslander
A Child in Winter
There is great virtue in practicing patience in small things until the habit of Advent returns to us. Sometimes this Advent season of the soul is a recurring rhythm through life, deliberately chosen as such or simply given to us. Sometimes it is the immediate result of conversion or a new awareness of God or an increase of Love.
Sometimes it is a painful expereince. It may be that a soul brimmed with lovebecomes dumb, inarticulate, blind, seeing only darkness, unable to give things that it longs to give to a world of children asking for bread.
That simply means that the Holy Spirit of Love, by which Christ was conceived in the heart, is compelling it to suffer the period of growth. The light is shining in the darkness , but the darkness did not comprehend it.
Caryll Houselander, A Child in Winter