from the pages of Patrick's
Personal Spiritual Journal
(un-retouched)
To be in need is to love grace
To be filled is to despise it Reality is that I need, and I should love, grace The unreality I create bills me as filled And hardens my heart So that I cannot need Dear Christ, I am in deep need Deep need. Please be gracious to me. Otherwise, I’ll never make it.
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Criticism
It’s just so critical Received a professor’s criticism of my thesis and it produced anxiety for me. What if he doesn’t approve of me? Halfway through I acknowledged the anxiety and embraced it as constructive Criticism can be constructive or flatly rejected What is in me that prefers to flatly reject it? Self-preservation When I should prefer self analysis Upon analyzing my self recently, I’ve found: Strong and arbitrary judgment of strangers A fear of appearing to be a failure I’ve made progress on the second, but the first is very innate. The logarithm for temptation
Some have claimed to have cracked Avoid certain behaviors Invest in others And sin will never be appealing But the math doesn’t add up You may increase your odds But in the end, it’s always a matter of the heart If my heart is right If it is purely Christ’s Then good fruit will be unavoidable I find that being aware of Christ is not natural for me I must bring about this awareness purposefully And when I allow the crush of the day to dominate, I am never aware of him |
Rev. RieckePatrick is Routine Revelation. These are entries from his personal spiritual journal. Most entries were written several years before they were published. For more on Rev. Riecke, click here. Archives
February 2018
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