My friend, let go of yourself & you will find me.
If you wholly give yourself into my hands
& take nothing back
You shall have me.
Some persons surrender themselves to me,
but they hold something back.
They do not trust me fully,
& go on trying to provide for themselves.
Others, at the beginning,
offer all of themselves to me,
but when a difficult time comes,
they put their trust back in themselves.
Such persons will never know perfect peace and freedom of heart.
Give all for all & hold back nothing.
Some persons surrender themselves to me,
but they hold something back.
They do not trust me fully,
& go on trying to provide for themselves.
Others, at the beginning,
offer all of themselves to me,
but when a difficult time comes,
they put their trust back in themselves.
Such persons will never know perfect peace and freedom of heart.
Give all for all & hold back nothing.
Stand purely & strongly & steadfastly in me
& you shall have me.
You shall be so free in heart & in soul
that darkness shall never have power over you.
Seek always in your heart
to be free of everything that binds you,
that in love you may die to yourself
& to all wordly things
& blessedly live to me.
If you do this
All unimportant questions shall fail & fade & go away.
Crippling fear & misplaced love shall die in you.
You shall live in me & I in you.
-Thomas A. Kempis...."The Imitation of Christ"
Awesome!
ReplyDeleteThat's it right there!
ReplyDeletethat is deep you have to digest it word by word it is a wonderful prayer.
ReplyDeleteI had to read this two times because I loved it! Thanks for posting it! You go from my crazy posts to peace over here! At least one of us is sane! :) LOL
ReplyDeleteThat's beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI loved it and wished I could be the one who gives my self completely ALL the TIME! Lately, I've been getting better and better and letting go and letting God. It's hard for a control freak like me to surrender to myself not to surrender to God.
ReplyDeleteThomas A'Kempis is most definitely deep! But oh, the truth!
ReplyDeleteI love your blog. Such a testimony.
Thanks so much for stopping by on my special SITS day!
Thomas a Kempis is one of my favorites. Thank you ...
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