sacred journeys

I think I might have posted this quote before, but it is worth another look.
This blessed me today, with everything that has been on my mind.

“Our Lord asks great faith from us, and he is right. We owe him great faith. After Our Lord said `Come’ to him, Peter had no more fear and walked upon the waters. So that when Jesus has quite certainly called us to certain circumstances in life, given us a certain vocation, we need fear nothing, but should attack the most insurmountable obstacles without hesitation. If Jesus has said `Come,’ we have the grace to walk upon the waters. It may seem to us impossible, but Jesus overmasters the impossible. So we need three things: first, to call out to Our Lord very clearly, and then, when we have distinctly heard his `Come’ (without this summons we have not the right to throw ourselves into the waters-it would be presumptuous, imprudent and rash, and a risk to the like of the soul; it would be sinful, even to mortal sin, for to risk the life of the soul is even graver than to risk the life of the body), once his `Come’ is heard by the soul (till that moment our duty is simply to pray and wait), we must hesitate no more but throw ourselves into the waters like S. Peter and, confident in the call that God has given, walk over the waves, without the least hesitation, without the least doubt or fear, sure that is we go forward in faith and confidence the path that Jesus calls to us to follow will become easy to us by the virtue of his call `Come.’ So let us walk with perfect faith in the way along which he calls us, for heaven and earth shall pass away but his words shall not pass” –Meditations of a Hermit, by Charles de Foucauld