Are you saying that you are on my ping list? That’s the only ping that went out here.
NO, I did not say that - you are not the only poster on this thread. Let’s not put words in my mouth but drop it - you are making this thread about me.
a quote from the book, The Glories of Divine Grace by
Father Matthias Scheeben:
“The more we belong to God, the more
He is ours: the more we live in Him and for Him, the more He lives
in us and for us. Can we call the branch lost when it is grafted
to a nobler tree and drinks the same life from the same root,
whereas, if separated from the tree and left to itself, it would
wither or, as a wilding, would have but a stunted existence? On
the contrary, it can now boast not only of the life which it draws
from the tree, but also of the life and perfection which trunk and
roots possess for themselves. So may we too, united to God BY
GRACE, not only derive for our portion a ray of the divine glory,
not only channel off into our soul a small stream of the divine
life, but we may regard the divine Sun itself, the fountain of
divine life, as our very own; we can rejoice in the personal
perfections of God as if they were fully ours.
Being thus divinized in a twofold manner, we likewise enjoy a
twofold participation in divine beatitude: first, by beholding the
beauty and glory of God as He Himself sees and enjoys it, and
secondly, by possessing this same divine beauty and glory and
calling it our own, through grace, thus imitating God who
possesses it by nature.”