February 28
“… however difficult or however insignificant our life may seem to be, it is precious to God as Christ is precious to God. On each one in whom Christ lives, the whole of the infinite love of God is concentrated at every moment. If this were realized there could be no one who could not fulfill the first condition of rest, which is trust.”
-Caryll Houselander
February 27
“The power of Christ is able to control fiercer storms than those of the wind and the sea. It is able to still the torrents of evil of the whole world in the stillness of his own heart. It is the power which enables him to command the floods of all the sorrow in the world and hold them within his peace. It is the power which can not only give life back to the dead, but can change death itself to life. It is the power of divine love.”
-Caryll Houselander
February 26
“We could scrub the floor for a tired friend, or dress a wound for a patient in a hospital, or lay the table and wash up for the family; but we shall not do it in martyr spirit or with that worse spirit of self-congratulation, of feeling that we are making ourselves more perfect, more unselfish, more positively kind.
We shall do it just for one thing, that our hands make Christ's hands in our life, that our service may let Christ serve through us, that our patience may bring Christ's patience back to the world.”
-Caryll Houselander
February 25
“Everything that Christ said and did and experienced on earth is the Word saying, 'see how God loves you!'”
-Caryll Houselander
February 24
“Disasters are not God’s will; they are the result of sin and opposed to God’s will. But in His mercy He does allow that the suffering resulting from them, though never the sin that caused them, can be caught up into His love and do good.”
-Caryll Houselander
February 23
“Rest is not idleness; indeed, restlessness is the torment of idle people. It is not relaxation. Relaxation should never be necessary, because the nervous tension which makes it so should never be present. Rest, far from being relaxation, is a culmination, a fullness of gathered peace, like the fullness and stillness of waters gathered to a flood tide.”
-Caryll Houselander
February 22
“... small sufferings of every day, such as the ‘slights’ which literally corrode those who try to endure them in their own strength. But in those in whom Christ abides, it is Christ who suffers every humiliation…”
-Caryll Houselander
February 21
“Suffering does not redeem simply because it is suffering... Suffering does not necessarily help at all; it does not necessarily unite us to God, in fact it can separate from Him. Suffering can make us bitter, cynical, cruel; it can drive us to despair. What matters to us is not that we suffer, or that we suffer a little or a lot, but that Christ suffers in us. Not that our lives are small or are lived on a heroic scale, but that they are lived by Christ in us...”
-Caryll Houselander
February 20
“His presence in [difficult people] may save us from some particular sin. They may be, to us, Christ forgiving, Christ in his patience, Christ teaching. They may be Christ in His weariness, or Christ in His fear of Gethsemane, Christ facing His death… They may come as Christ in that particular need of His…”
-Caryll Houselander
February 19
“How often we think that but for this or that person in our lives we should be saints! That troublesome person in the office; that exasperating fellow lodger; that spiteful old relative... Why is it that we cannot get away from them? It is because Christ wishes to be with them and has chosen us to take Him to them. He loves them, He sees the depths of their loneliness. He has plumbed it with His love. Moreover He approaches us in them.” -Caryll Houselander
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