Light On Dark Water

This is from one of the daily meditations in Magnificat:

Man’s desires are, in some extraordinary way, the image of God’s desire…. Our desires can only be understood in the light of God’s desire…. We must not shut our hearts against desire, but learn how to desire rightly…. We cannot learn to love God by learning not to love. If we kill off in ourselves the faculty we have for desire, then we shall paralyze our faculty for loving God.

—Fr. Simon Tugwell, O.P.

This reminds me of some of the things Traherne says about learning to want like God, a curious topic that I meant to explore a year or two ago when I was commenting on Traherne, but never got around to.

Of course maybe my posting this is an example of someone being pleased with advice that confirms him in what he’s already doing, as my faculty for desire is in excellent working order, always has been, and I’ve never been very good at disciplining it.

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