CMP Review 2024-09-08

In her book The Dialogue, Catherine of Siena offers a message for restless hearts: “Without [God] they could never be satisfied even if they possessed the whole world. For created things are less than the human person. They were made for you, not you for them, and so they can never satisfy you.”

In Psalm 17, David points to what actually can satisfy us: “I shall be satisfied,” he avows, “when I awake, with thy likeness.” But is this peace reserved for the next age, or can we experience it in this?

In Charlotte Mason’s poem “Satisfied,” she shows us how “unquiet heart enters green place of peace where none molest.” There, in the words of Catherine’s Dialogue, “they … feel [God] in their souls by grace and are satisfied.” Read or hear Mason’s poem here.

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