All things on Earth have their price, and for truth we pay the dearest. We barter it for love and sympathy. The road to honor is paved with thorns; but on the path to truth, at every step you set your foot down on your own heart. --Olive Schreiner
My colleague Sannion posted this recently on his blog (http://thehouseofvines.wordpress.com) having gotten it from this blog: http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevinwax/2012/05/12/stick-with-your-work/. This is absolutely the best advice that any spiritworker, shaman, mystic, godspouse, godservant, priest, etc. could ever and i mean EVER be given. So I'm reposting it here. (I don't care of it originated on a Christian blog. It's still excellent and necessary admonishment). Thank you, Sannion, for bringing it to my attention! Stick with your work. Stick with your work. Do not flinch because the lion roars. Do not stop to stone the devil’s dogs. Do not fool away your time chasing the devil’s rabbits. Do your work. Let liars lie. Let sectarians quarrel. Let critics malign. Let enemies accuse. Let the devil do his worst. But see to it nothing hinders you from fulfilling with joy the work God has given you. He has not commanded you to be admired or esteemed. He has never bidden you defend your character. He has not set you at work to contradict falsehood (about yourself) which Satan’s or God’s servants may start to peddle, or to track down every rumor that threatens your reputation. If you do these things, you will do nothing else. You will be at work for yourself and not for the Lord. Keep at your work. Let your aim be as steady as a star. You may be assaulted, wronged, insulted, slandered, wounded and rejected, misunderstood, or assigned impure motives; You may be abused by foes, forsaken by friends, and despised and rejected of men. But see to it with steadfast determination, with unfaltering zeal, that you pursue the great purpose of your life and object of your being until at last you can say, “I have finished the work which Thou gavest me to do.” - Anonymous | AuthorGalina Krasskova is a Heathen author and devotee of Odin, Loki and Sigyn. ArchivesMay 2013 CategoriesAll |
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