Like Fire (Peter Riedemann)

A fire goes out before it really ignites if one puts too much wood on it, as those who work with it know. But once it really flares, the more wood one puts on it, the better it burns, so that even houses and whole forests are burned. When there is no more wood, however, it dies and grows cold. It is the same with love. When it is first kindled in a person, small troubles and temptations smother and hinder it. But when it really burns, having kindled the person's eagerness for God, the more temptations and tribulation meet it, the more it flares, until it overcomes and consumes all injustice and wickedness.



Peace Forever,
Firacub.