Lent with Anthony Bloom: Reading #2

Excerpts from his anthology, Creative Prayer

This year’s daily Lent postings for my subscribers will taken from the short anthology of writings on prayer taken from the corpus of Metropolitan Anthony Bloom. The first post of the series is here.

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GOD WITHIN US

The Gospel tells us that the King of God is within us first of all. If we cannot find the Kingdom of God within us, if we cannot meet God within, in the very depth of ourselves, our chances of meeting Him outside ourselves are very remote. When Yuri Gagarin came back from space and made his remarkable statement that he never saw God in heaven, one of our priests in Moscow remarked, “If you have not seen Him on earth, you will never seen Him in heaven.”