St. Teresa of Avila says: "This path of self knowledge must never be abandoned, nor is there on this journey a soul so much a giant that it has no need to return often to the stage of an infant and a suckling....Along this path of prayer, self knowledge and the thought of one's sins is the bread with which all palates must be fed no matter how delicate they may be; they cannot be sustained without this bread"
This may sound sort of twisted, but it is true. We cannot pretend to be better than we are. As you and I come face to face with the messiness that within us, there is nowhere else for us to go but the throne of grace. Not turning these things over to God will ultimately make our lives all the more messy. Yet, if we are brave enough, when we confess, we are fed. It is only when we come forward with honesty that we find our Heavenly Father who is open-armed. If we pretend that there is nothing wrong with us then we will not know His embrace. We will not hear these words of truth: "The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love." (Psalm 103:8)
C.S. Lewis says: "lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us."
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