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Walking With God

Try to take an attitude toward God, not of forced conversation such as you maintain with persons toward whom you stand on ceremony and address in mere complimentary fashion, but such as you observe toward a dear friend with whom you are under no restraint, and who is under none with you. Such friends meet and talk and listen, or are silent, content to be together saying nothing. They do not weigh what they will say. They insinuate nothing and have no hidden agenda. Everything comes out in truth and love regardless of how it is said. Nothing is held back, perverted, or dressed up. They are just as well satisfied one day when a little has been said as another when there was plenty to say.

   We can never be as real with our best earthly friends as fully as we could wish, but we can be so to any extent with God, if only we will not hem ourselves in with our own self-love. It will not do to pay him visits, as if we were discharging a debt due to society. We must abide with him in the privacy of servants, or better still, of children. Be with him as you would have your child be with you, and then you will never be weary. 

 

The Complete Fenelon - Francois Fenelon

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