Teresa of Avila: Interior Castle: Seventh Mansions: Chapter Four When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible,…
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“Just As I AM” Just Wasn’t Good Enough
Just as I am, though tossed about with many a conflict, many a doubt, fightings and fears within, without, O Lamb of God, I come, I come. Bruce attended a fundamentalist Christian college. He was dedicated to God, but endured…
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Joy and Suffering
Interior Castle: Sixth Mansion: Chapter Eleven Teresa embraces future death. She sees death as welcome and a delay in death as painful. (Of course, she also sees death and the delay in death as something belonging to God’s timing.) Teresa’s perspective…
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