https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/031923.cfm
I quote:
"Awake, O sleeper,
and arise from the dead,
and Christ will give you light."
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Agatha Christie's character, Hercules Poirot would spend time on what appeared to other members of his investigative team, on the allegedly trivial that a colleague had determined was undignified, even irrational. Poirot allowed his innermost thoughts to provide him with scenarios leading him to deduce that, that which appeared easily before the eyes of the human senses failed to reveal the truth, now beginning to materialise in his quiet contemplative sweep of the crime scene.
“One must seek the truth within – not without.”~ Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot
After the forensics team has completed its work a seasoned detective will spend several moments contempating what may, or may not have occurred...and who was present at the time the heinous crime took place. In other words patiently allowing ones interior thoughts to build a picture can provide the wise investigator with more than the ready evidence might indicate.
Over many years I have learned that sitting comfortably in silence, asking Our Father for His assistance leads me to the solution that had failed to materialise, when I believed that my rational understandings were adequate to the task at hand.
It takes time, and experience in our developing friendship with The Divine Mystery to understand, and learn all that He is teaching us.
My words will always be inadequate.
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
― Carl Jung
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