Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

Pondering Tidbits of Truth is my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets of spiritual wisdom for you to chew on from time to time . St. Anthony Mary Claret "...the most important point on which depends your whole welfare in the spiritual life...one must tread in the footsteps which Jesus Christ left before us, and keeping Him faithful company, patiently bear the desolation and affliction in one's spirit, pain and hardships in one's body, outrages, injuries, ill-will and persecution from whatever source they come." (From The Golden Key to Heaven)

Thank you Allison Gingras and Elizabeth Riordan for another opportunity to re-publish our favorite posts on  Worth Revisiting . Go there now  (and every Wednesday) and be nourished spiritually. Be sure to v isit Allison at   Reconciled To You   and Elizabeth at  Theology Is A Verb  during the rest of each week.   You will enjoy your visit.  Here is my contribution: There Would Have Been No Need of Christ Coming to Earth (Originally posted January 27, 2015) (Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) “If we were naturally good and naturally progressive, there would have been no need of Christ coming to earth to make men good. Those who are well have no need of a physician. If all were right with the world, God would have stayed In His Heaven. His Presence in the crib in Bethlehem is a witness not to our progress, but to our misery. Just as Christmas is a season for exchanging gifts with friends, so Our Lord came to this poor ea...