way of living

The nuns taught us there are two ways through life - the way of nature and the way of grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow.
Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries.
Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy when all the world is shining around it, when love is smiling through all things.
They taught us that no one who loves the way of grace ever comes to a bad end.
I will be true to you whatever comes.

"生き方には二通りある"と修道女に教わった。世俗に生きるか、神の恩寵に生きるか。どちらか選ばなくては。

神を選ぶ人は利己心を持たない。軽んじられ、忘れられ、疎まれることを受け入れる。侮辱され、傷つくことも。

世俗に生きる人は利己的。他人を自分に従わせ、威圧的に振る舞う。自分の意のままに。常に不満の種を見いだす。周りが幸せに輝いていても。愛情が満ち溢れていても。

こうも教わった"神の恩寵に生きる者に不幸は訪れない"と。

あなたに忠実に生きます。何があろうとも。

from Tree of Life