The Word of God

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“Abba Poemen said, ‘The nature of water is soft, that of stone is hard; but if a bottle is hung above the stone, allowing the water to fall drop by drop, it wears away the stone. So it is with the word of God; it is soft and our heart is hard.’”

God of respite;

Soothe with the salve
of your words
the dry, cracked
ground of my
hardened heart.
Amen.

~Sayings of the Desert Fathers