From the Rule of St. Benedict: Chapter 4, verse 74:
And never despair of God’s mercy.
When I am in a good place, God’s mercy seems obvious. It washes over me and carries me with it, seemingly without any effort by me. When I am not in a good place that same mercy that was as endless as the ocean becomes as empty as a frozen desert. That is the nature of our spiritual wanderings. Sometimes we are lost, sometimes we are found. The instruction to never despair is a reminder that mercy is always available and it will come if we pray for it. It seems that we never find our own way back to his mercy. It always requires a word from another to bring us back to where we know we need to be in order to be comforted.
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