Already Too Full?

Our cups may be empty at times and at others, they may be too full to be filled with what we really need. This is why I have adopted the prayer, “Empty me of me, fill me with you, Holy Spirit.” Alan Fadling is a blogger I follow regularly and who wonderfully refers to this concept…

Already Too Full | Alan Fadling: Notes from an Unhurried Life

“We long for the fullness of God’s presence in our lives. But do we come already full of something else so that we are unable to receive the fullness of God? What is it that I am full of that is a barrier to my receiving more fully the gracious presence of God with and in me…”

Read a poem to go with, here at this link… Already Too Full | Alan Fadling: Notes from an Unhurried Life.

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