Mortification

This from one of last week's spiritual readings which was dealing with the spiritual life which is what soul work is about.

"Mortification means killing the very roots of self-love; pride and possessiveness, anger and violence, ambition and greed in all their disguises, however respectable those disguises may be, whatever uniforms they wear. In fact, it really means the entire transformation of our personal, professional and political life into something more consistent with our real situation as small dependent, fugitive creatures; all sharing the same limitations and inheriting the same half-animal past. That may not sound very impressive or unusual; but it is the foundation of all genuine spiritual life...wherever we find people whose spiritual is robust and creative, we find that in one way or another this transformation has been effected and this price has been paid."

I pray for the Lord to assist me in being mortified so that I indeed might possess that life which is robust and creative to the glory and praise of God.