[Salvation]

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[Salvation]

Monsignor Pope Ping!

[John Locke]

A sentiment that was cast into verse by Arthur Hugh Clough:

Say not, 'The stuggle nought availeth;
The labour and the wounds are vain;
The enemy faints not nor faileth,
And as things have been, they remain.'

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars:
It may be, in yon smoke concealed,
Your comrades chase even now the fliers,
And, but for you, possess the field.

For while the tired waves, vainly breaking,
Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far back, through creeks and inlets making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the main.

And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light;
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly!
But westward, look! the land is bright.

Lines quoted by Winston Churchill in a memorable conversation with President Roosevelt, in one of the darker days of the War.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Even if God mysteriously allows demons some access to our lives, it is only to act as a snare for the evil one and to unlock greater blessings for us who call out in faith."

I've been a grateful member of AA for 15 years after spending the two decades before that in an alcoholic haze. I've never seen my journey so succinctly or beautifully summarized in one sentence as Msgr. Pope did above.

[ealgeone]

Find rest my soul In Christ alone

Roman Catholics would do well to heed this admonition.