The word encourage is a powerful one. Since it comes from the Latin word for heart, cor, one could say that encourage means “strengthen the heart.” In fact, we have the roughly equivalent word hearten. We also sometimes say, “Do not lose heart.” Since in spirituality the heart is a person’s core or deepest center, where he or she encounters God, encouragement in the Christian sense serves to strengthen faith and to nurture relationships with God, especially amid feelings of doubt and fear...
From Lessons from Saint Benedict, Finding Joy in Daily Life
by Donald S. Raila, OSB
No comments:
Post a Comment