Meditation for the Day- Submerged in the World
'They will relinquish all amity with the world, so that
they may keep that longing continually in their hearts, preferring
nothing to it. But few indeed there are who add to a good beginning an
equivalent end and who endure without stumbling until they reach it.
Many are moved to repentance and many become partakers of heavenly grace
and are wounded by divine love; but, unable to bear the ensuing
tribulations and the wily and versatile assaults of the devil, they
submit to the world and are submerged in its depths through the
flabbiness and debility of their will, or are taken captive by some
attachment to worldly things. Those who wish to pursue the way with
assurance to the end will not permit any other longing or love to
intermingle with their divine love.'
