Living from the life already ours in Christ, even in weariness.
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When I am scattered, weary, or inwardly empty, Christ is already my life. I do not have to conceal my condition. I can live from the life already within me, the life I cannot produce. I have often expected myself to arrive at prayer already possessing the very things I need to receive there. I should be peaceful. I should have faith. I should be attentive and full of love. Then I discover how little I have, and I feel that I have somehow failed before I have begun. My poverty is a truthful beginning. Christ is my life when I feel strong, and He is my life when I have very little to say for myself. I want to live from Him in that simple way. To let His divine life have room in the places where I have been trying so hard to supply myself.
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