Tell God

Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one's heart,
its pleasures and its pains, to a dear friend.

Tell Him your troubles, that He may comfort you; tell Him your joys, that
He may sober them; tell Him your longings, that He may purify them; tell
Him your dislikes, that He may help you conquer them; talk to Him of your
temptations, that He may shield you from them: show Him the wounds of your
heart, that He may heal them; lay bare your indifference to good, your
depraved tastes for evil, your instability. Tell Him how self-love makes
you unjust to others, how vanity tempts you to be insincere, how pride
disguises you to yourself and others.

If you thus pour out all your weaknesses, needs, troubles, there will be
no lack of what to say. You will never exhaust the subject. It is
continually being renewed. People who have no secrets from each other
never want for subjects of conversation. They do not weigh their words,
for there is nothing to be held back; neither do they seek for something
to say. They talk out of the abundance of the heart, without consideration
they say just what they think.

Blessed are they who attain to such familiar,
unreserved intercourse with God.

... Francois Fenelon
Taken from Christian Quote of the Day

 

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