Our Faith is about swords, not hand-holding.
Swords first wielded at ourselves, our sins. The first warfare is the interior one where we march into battle declaring war on anything that keeps us away from God. This is the meaning of St. John of the Cross’ nada, nada as steps leading souls in the Ascent of Mount Carmel. Each level of that mountain is a nada (nothing), a stripping of all that magnifies the self and its conceits.
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