By Caryll Houselander
“Stop trying to think out a solution for the moment: there isn’t
one. One day there may be; God will then
show it to you. In the meantime, accept
it all as being the big thing for God and His Church that He asks of you-that,
and the depression too. You will find
the relief of merely accepting, instead of struggling, wonderful; and I include
in this, accepting anything in yourself, during the crisis, which seems to you
a failure or fault. Don’t exonerate
yourself, but just say you are sorry, briefly, to God, and add that your name
is dirt-that’s what is to be expected from you-but you’re sorry, you are
forgiven, and it is over.
“During the war I was simply terrified by air raids, and it was my lot
to be in every one that happened in London-sometimes on the roofs of these
flats, sometimes in the hospital…. I tried to build up my courage by reason and
prayer, etc. Then one day I realized
quite suddenly: ‘As long as I try not to
be afraid I shall be worse, and I shall show it one day and break; what God is
asking of me, to do for suffering humanity, is to be afraid, to accept it and
put up with it, as one has to put up with pain (if not druggable) or anything
else. I am not going to get out of any
of the suffering. From the time the
siren goes until the All Clear, I am going to be simply frightened stiff, and
that’s what I’ve got to do for the world-offer that to God, because it is that
and nothing else which He asks of me.”
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