Reflection for March 3

I have a small flickering light to guide me
into the forest. Up pops a theologian
and blows it out.

—Mark Twain

Reflection

Truth cannot be imposed upon us from without. The
spiritual journey is about finding your own truth and
religion or dogma cannot do it for you. They may help
but they can't replace your own conscious contact with
God. There is no mass salvation, each of us has to fol-
low our own hearts, and we sometimes have to tell the
theologians to get lost.

Affirmation

Help me to believe in my own truth and my own
vision. My relationship with the Creator is mine and
nothing can take it away from me.

Malachy McCOURT