2 kings 25:1-12; Psalm 137 Let my tongue be silenced, If i ever forget you; Matthew 8:1-4
Wisdom from St. Gregory of Nyssa
"The life of the Christian has three distinguishing aspects:deeds, words, and thoughts. Thought comes first, then words, since our words express openly the interior conclusions of the mind. Finally, after thoughts and words, comes actions, for our deeds carry out what the mind has conceived. So when one of these results in our acting or speaking, we must make sure that all our thoughts, words, and deeds are controlled by the divine ideal, the revelation of Christ. For then our thoughts, words, and deeds will not fall short of the nobility of their implications.
What, then, must we do, we who have been found worthy of the name of Christ?
Each if us must examine his thoughts, words, and deeds, to see whether they are directed toward Christ or are turned away from him.
If you draw from him the thoughts in your mind and the inclinations of your heart, you will show likeness to Christ, your source and origin, as a gleaming water in a jar resembles the flowing water from which it was obtained.
For the purity of Christ and the purity that is manifested in our hearts are identical. Christ's purity is the fountainhead; ours has its source in him and flows out of him.
Our life is stamped with the beauty of his thought."
Today stay tuned in to the radiance of Christ and allow that radiance to impress upon your heart the beauty of eternity, the beauty of heaven, the beauty of harmony with Christ himself. Then the life we have will become something beautiful for God.
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