Over the years, I have been instructed and blessed by the work of Father Donald Haggerty. His recent book, The Hour of Testing - Spiritual Depth and Insight in a Tome of Ecclesial Uncertainty, is a book for our time. I highly recommend it.
Just ponder this little this gem:
“[God] comes as one who
can be refused and denied admittance; His tapping at the door of the human
heart can be ignored. Indeed, He is a God who can be cast outside into the cold.
There are countless people who at some point in life callously occupy the home
in their soul that belongs to God and evict Him. He is a God of
unfathomable humility, submitting repeatedly to crass gestures of rudeness from
His creature. Until we realize this humility of God, we cannot love Him
properly. He is vulnerable to being wounded and finds few people who are moved
to see how, in His humility, He turns His face away, hiding it from view, not
in anger, but to conceal the rejection He experiences from those indifferent to
Him. It is as though God is capable of a broken heart, but He does not want to
show it.”
(Father Donald Haggerty
from The Hour of Testing - Spiritual Depth and Insight in a Time of Ecclesial
Uncertainty)
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