The Desert Fathers (and mothers) who lived 1700 years ago in third-century Egypt still have a lot to teach us. Here is one of their sayings:
"Water is by nature soft,
stone on the contrary hard.
But when water drips continually on a stone,
it hollows it out.
So too,
God's Word is delicate and mild,
our heart on the contrary hard.
Yet whoever hears the Word of God frequently and reflects on it,
makes space within his heart, so that it can enter in."
(Lost in Wonder, p. 48)
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