Do you throw yourself with reckless abandon into Gods loving arms each day? This is necessary to walk the narrow path of salvation. Do you walk the path of your own desires excluding those before you in need? Gods will is mercy, compassion, and forgiveness. This is the purity of heart the spiritual life draws us to live, through the narrow gate of life.
We are to forgive. Maybe towards a past relationship that still holds us hostage to anger and resentment. Or to our husband for the comments he’s made recently that you’ve taken too personally because it hits a tender spot that needs to heal in your heart. We are to show compassion. Perhaps to a child who is struggling with being overwhelmed with the demands of being an adult? Perhaps to a work colleague who is trying to hold it together as her husband faces a life changing diagnosis. We are to give mercy. Perhaps it’s being a safe space for a widow who is still grieving after the loss of her husband four years ago. These actions lead our heard down the narrow path of purification and love.
What do you need to do today to get off the middle way? With lent a few weeks away, perhaps you vow to add more forgiveness, mercy and compassion to your life.
“Be one of the small number who find the way to life, and enter by the narrow gate into Heaven. Take care not to follow the majority and the common herd, so many of whom are lost. Do not be deceived; there are only two roads: one that leads to life and is narrow; the other that leads to death and is wide. There is no middle way.”— St. Louis de Montfort
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