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02/15/2023 – Chapter 20 – “When to Find God: The Sacrament of the Present Moment.”

An excerpt:

I would like to share the last paragraph on pg #101 with the wrap up paragraphs of this chapter 20:

“Buddha argued that desire always causes suffering because it creates a a gap between what you have and what you want. So he couseled the abolition of all desire. But hope is not a desire. It is almost the opposite of desire since its object is not something in the future but something in the present: not the good things you want God to give you in the future but the good God who is giving you exactly what you you need in the present.

… Enter eternity by dealing , at this present moment, with the eternal and therefore present God right now. In other words, in a single word, pray.”

Sublime. Soli Deo Gloria!