On Longing: during the Second Week of Advent

"If you wait,
God will manifest himself."
--Thomas Keating, Cistercian priest

"Remember that while you are seeking you are also being sought...you will be found. You will be led. You will enter in. Look for that. Expect it. Expect to come to revelations of the Lord. Expect shells to break in their season. Expect boats to ride as the tide comes in. This is hope, to desire and to expect."
--Oswald W.S. McCall

"I believe that humanity's yearning--all of it, the wailing and the wishing, the eagerness and the edginess--is somehow, in the mind of a loving God, bound together into a single reaching for the light." --Tom Ehrich

"God, of your goodness give me yourself, for you are sufficient for me...In you alone do I have all." --St. Julian of Norwich

"Lord, give us grace to awake us,
to see the branch that begins to bloom;
in great humility is hid
all heaven in a little room."
--Carol Christopher Drake

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