#SisterWendy shared a dream in 3 parts:"First I was looking at magnificent pictures of lakes, then I was actually walking beside these lakes seeing them in their full reality, and then the lakes were inside me. I was containing the lakes...
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....But the significant point is that when I was walking beside the lakes I realized that there was something wrong. The lakes were being damaged, poisoned perhaps, and it was my great sorrow over this and my desire to purify them that carried me into the third stage....
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..Because in my own self the lakes were being changed and purified. I suppose this is an image of what being a Christian means. In Jesus we take the whole wounded world into ourselves and suffer with it, holding it out all the time to His holiness...
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...So you see this was a deep and beautiful dream, a dream that enlarged me and made me feel a part of His redemptive suffering, which of course is true of all of us. That’s why we live still and don’t flit off to heaven: His lakes need us."--Sister Wendy Beckett #EarthDay
Have you written a book about her? I seem to recall that you did.... She is definitely a mystic..
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What unspeakably precious treasures Sister Wendy gave you... Thank you so much for sharing them with us.
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