Meditations on God

When you submit

your will and life

to God

the work

has really just begun

all of your old ways

your fears

appetites

and anger

must be threshed out

like chaff from wheat

with the chaff of sin

being burned away

by the flames of purification

until all that remains

is the wheat of love

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THE FLAMES OF PURIFICATION
By Robert Van Valkenburgh
Meditations of a Gentle Warrior

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