I ran across the first quote today—which then reminded me of the second—and thought I’d blogged about them and sure enough I had. So, dipping into the archives, here we go again. I hope it will help encourage your focus to be “spot on” the way it did for me.
Here’s the first:
When we have a simple intention, we are less occupied with the thing to be done. We do all that we do not only for God but so to speak in Him. We are more aware of Him who works in us than of ourselves or of our work.
Thomas Merton, No Man is an Island
BTW, while checking my facts about this quote online I ran across the following post that does a lovely job of further explaining, in layman’s terms, what a simple intention might look like in practice. Enjoy!
http://www.conversiondiary.com/2010/11/right-intention-vs-simple-intention.html
And the second:
God remains in you in order to hold you up.
You remain in God in order not to fall.
St. Bede the Venerable
Good words we all need to hear (or at least I do…and pretty much all the time!)
Have a lovely Lord’s Day…
Be You Very Well 