GEMS

I found this gem while reading 

an Elisabeth Elliot newsletter 

“Sufferings arising from anxiety,

 in which the soul 

-adds to the cross-

 imposed by the hand of God 

-an agitated resistance- 

and a sort of unwillingness 

to suffer such troubles 

arise only because we live to ourselves. 

**

A cross wholly inflicted by God, 

and fully accepted without any

uneasy hesitation, 

is full of peace as well as of pain. 

**

... a cross not fully and simply

accepted, but resisted by the love of self, even

slightly, is a double cross; it is even more a cross,

owing to this useless resistance.”

François de la Mothe Fénelon

http://www.elisabethelliot.org/newsletters/2002-03-04.pdf