Great Disciplines

 Meister Eckhart

If you have faults, then pray often to God to remove them from you, if that should please him, because you can’t get rid of them yourself. If he does remove them, then thank him; but if he does not, then bear them for him – not thinking of them as faults or sins, but rather as great disciplines, and then, you shall merit reward and exercise your patience; but be satisfied whether he gives you what you want or not for he does to each according to what is best for them and what best fits the need.

Sermons

[There are some quotations (like this one) that it would serve me to read and re-read daily. In the ‘reformation’ process we make every effort to rid ourselves of faults and shortcomings . God takes over in the ‘transformation’ process, and our only part there is do all we can love and know God.]