Leaping into the Hands of God

Lessons from My Teachers on Hypostatic Spiritual Care

By: Fr. David Alexander

Narrated by: Fr. David Alexander

In times of trial the man who turns to God can compete with God's power—which has been made perfect in his weakness—to claim the choicest gifts from the tree of life as his spoils: patience, unflagging hope, the opening of the eyes of his heart, humility which places him on the path to Personhood, an expanded capacity to bear pain, the finding of unutterable joy within pain, and the invincibility of a life hidden with God. The spiritual caregiver clings to this truth for himself and the one who seeks his care, carrying the other within his heart as he leaps with courage and contempt for his own will into God's hands in every encounter. In the leaping, he is prepared for anything.

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