Saturday, August 13, 2016

Thoughts on Excess, and the Plentitude of Less


Greed is drunken desire gone mad, a cancer of the soul. It grows impulsively, steadily consuming its host, while fed by a superfluous overflow of material abundance and self-importance.


Voluntary restraint invites a diet of sacrifice and relinquishment that sheds excessive, self-centered weight, while also fostering mercy, humility, and compassion.  Spiritual disciplines encouraging deep, reverent emptiness are not punitive curses of deprivation, but gifts calling the mind to correct self-awareness.  They prompt a profound appetite (soul hunger) satisfied by the presence of our holy God. 




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