St Thomas More said, “The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.” The soul has to undergo tremendous mortifications at first, and then more refined detachments, until finally its Divine image is revealed. Because mortification is recognized as a practice of death, there is fittingly inscribed in Latin on the tomb of John Duns Scotus, “twice died, but buried only once.”
When we die to something, something else comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.
What will you die to today?
Lord, help me be faithful to the practice of dying to myself today to grow a little more like You.
Smitten With Goodness 