Are you burning for His peace?

Good Monday morning, my friends.

The prayer below is by St. Augustine of Hippo, from his Confessions. It describes a condition I was in for many years - searching for God in all the wrong places.  My question to you this morning is this: Are you searching on the outside for something that is inside?  Are you deaf and blind?  Or are you burning for His peace?

As I heard someone say yesterday - Give Jesus a try.  If you are not fully satisfied the devil will gladly refund all your misery.

Amazing Grace and Eternal Peace to you today,

Bruce

Late have I loved you, 

O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, 

late have I loved you! 

You were within me, but I was outside, 

and it was there that I searched for you. 

In my unloveliness 

I plunged into the lovely things which you created. 

You were with me, but I was not with you. 

Created things kept me from you; 

yet if they had not been in you they would have not been at all. 

You called, you shouted, and you broke through my deafness. 

You flashed, you shone, and you dispelled my blindness. 

You breathed your fragrance on me; 

I drew in breath and now I pant for you. 

I have tasted you, now I hunger and thirst for more. 

You touched me, and I burned for your peace.

(http://bobhostetler.blogspot.com/2010/09/you-called-you-shouted-you-broke.html)

Bruce MacPherson macpherson@celtic.ca