A MEDITATION ON SELF EFFACEMENT

A Meditation on the importance of self-forgetfulness

There is, in everyone, an instinctual reflex that gives the self-will power to decidedly guide the individual's life. Many times, however, the person quickly discovers that such a decision leads to consequences that otherwise should have been avoided. The popular dictum "we learn from our mistakes" is often voiced in the wake of these kinds of errors. The story of Germaine Cousin, recounted in the newly released historical novel, GERMAINE: REQUIEM OF A SOUL/ The True Story of Cinderella, tells the story of a precious soul who learned to surrender her self-will completely to God. This inspirational story shatters all the conventional theories, modern man may have, about God and about the more contemporary concepts of self-empowerment. Has our culture and society nurtured, in our youth, the wrong precepts and values? Have we failed to recognize that Jesus, when he approaches, does not strengthen and empower the individual, as most protestant evangelists claim, but instead, as Jean-Pierre de Caussade writes, "when the Lord approaches, he weakens." Let Germaine Cousin's story touch your soul to the core, and shake its very foundation. David James