“As soon as I believed there was a God, I understood that I could not do anything other than live for Him.” Charles de Foucauld

M. de Foucauld lived from 1858 until some time in the early 1900s. The exact date is not in this article sitting in front of me, but I could find it on-line…if I cared enough to interrupt my train of thought to look it up. I don’t.

His whole life (after his conversion) was given to being a witness for Christ. He lived by example, rather than by preaching.

Back when I first came to know and love God, all I wanted to do was share Him with everyone. I guess it’s like someone who has just fallen in love and can’t stop talking about the new man in her life. It took some time to realize that it is impossible to set someone else on fire unless they want to be on fire.

It’s like a candle held up to another candle. If you hold the flame of a lit candle to the wick of another one, it will light it. If you hold the flame of a lit candle to the wax of another candle, it will destroy the other candle. I have no desire to destroy another person’s candle. I will happily light one, but will do everything I can to avoid burning the wax.