Weekly Readings (18th March 2011)

Devotion

This weeks theme is devotion a&&roach'

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Read this selection# o$t lo$d i% &ossi(le# seven times Dwell $&on the &hrase or sentence that to$ches yo$ )sk yo$rsel% what relevance or a&&lication this has to yo$rsel% *inally# sit in the a%terglow o% these re%lections and o&en yo$rsel% to whatever new insight or message the Divine might have %or yo$

Text 1:

!% a s&irit$al e"&lanation alone were s$%%icient# the creation o% the world wo$ld have (een vain and &ointless !% love were only s&irit$al# the &ractices o% %asting and &rayer wo$ld not e"ist The gi%ts o% lovers to one another are# in res&ect to love# nothing ($t %orms+ yet# they testi%y to an invisi(le love (1 2,2-.2/)
Text 2:

01veryone who delights in some act o% devotion can2t (ear to miss it# even %or a short while That disa&&ointment and grie% are as a h$ndred &rayers' what is rit$al &rayer com&ared with the glow o% h$m(le longing3 (2 2/,4./0)