With this post, I’m rebooting my Daybook. Obviously, I failed to keep it going every day. Perhaps I can do better making it a weekly entry. So here goes….
Scripture for the Week
Reflection
This week’s Reflection is from Divine Eros: The Hymns of St. Symeon the New Theologian.
What is this spine-chilling mystery that is being accomplished
in me?
In no way can a word recount, nor can
my miserable hand write to the praise and glory
of Him Who is above praise, of Him Who is beyond telling.
For, tell me, if the things now being accomplished in me the
profligate
are inexpressible and unutterable, how would
He Who is the author and maker of such wonders
need praise from us, or need to receive glory?
No, for He Who has been glorified cannot be glorified,
in the same way that the sun that is seen by us in the cosmos
could not be illumined nor partake of light;
the sun gives light, it is not enlightened; it enlightens, it does
not receive light.
For the sun has the light that it received from the beginning,
from the Creator.
And so if God, the Creator of everything, has made the sun,
and has created without need, only to bring to light a
bounteous flame,
and in no way from any other greater need,
how would He receive glory from lowly me?