A daily drop of wisdom from the men and women who turned to the desert for spiritual testing and transformation on their journey toward God.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Making Progress
A hermit said, "We do not make progress because we do not realize how much we can do. We lose interest in the work we have begun, and we want to be good without even trying.
Born about 380 A.D. in Alexandria, Egypt, to a well-respected Christian family of Macedonian heritage, Syncletica was well-educated and was said to be beautiful. When her parents died, she sold all her possessions, cut her hair as a sign of consecration and moved with her blind sister to the family tomb outside Alexandria to begin her life of ascesis. Women soon began to gather around her and she agreed to be their spiritual mentor.
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