My beginning advice to you is this: Always read the Scriptures with a heart ready to repent. Receive the storm that repentance brings. Let the hold winds toss you to and fro. You will be awakened to new depths as you wrestle with the life forces within.
What seems like violence at first will lead you gently into the eye of God where all is calm and quiet, like the eye of a hurricane. When you finally surrender and stop fighting the winds, you will be carried by angels into the eye of God.
There, you will rest in peace and learn to see like God. It will be the great harvest of contemplation – through the storm into the quiet.
This is an excerpt from a book A Tree Full of Angels by Macrina Wiederkehr. If you would like to buy this book please click here.