Today we turn our hearts to the discipline of the psalms. Sister Joan begins with a challenge quoting from the philosopher, Socrates, who said:
The unexamined life is not worth living.
She invites us to recognize that:
The scrutiny of scripture must be brought to every part of our lives because we believe beyond the least doubt the God we seek, is there seeking us.
She concludes today's meditation with a beautiful metaphor on the smelters fire. I invite you to read it slowly, meditatively, in its entirety.
Prayer, and the spirit of these chapters, if we sing praise wisely or well, or truly, becomes a furnace, in which each act of our lives is submitted to the heat and purifying process of the smelter's fire, so that our minds and our hearts, our ideas, and our lives, come to be in sync, so that we are what we say we are, that the prayers that pass our lips change our lives, so that God's presence becomes palpable to us. Prayer brings us to burn off the dross of what clings to our souls like mildew and sets us free for deeper, richer, true lives in which we become what we seek.
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