Why you little fool…
Posted by Terry Nelson on Dec 20th, 2007
“A hermit said, ‘When you flee from the company of other men, or when you despise the world and worldings, take care to do so as if it were you who was being idiotic.” - Sayings of the Desert Fathers
December 20th, 2007 at 3:53 am
You can’t go wrong with anything by the Desert Fathers, can you?
BTW, I’ve been going through your blog trying to catch up on the reading.
I like your blogs. I should have been here at least a year and a half ago.
Tom
December 20th, 2007 at 8:34 am
Love these sayings of the desert fathers. Thank you.
Have you read Holy Abandonment by Dom Lehodey (written in 1934), the book Fr. Mark mentioned on his blog maybe a month ago? I ordered it, Tan has it, and it is AWESOME! (sorry, we have four teenagers in the home —:>).
December 21st, 2007 at 7:36 pm
It would be difficult to not appear idiotic when despising “worldlings”, for to do so is to disobey God’s commands.