From Milk to Solid Food

Hebrews 5:12–14 (NRSVUE)

You need milk, not solid food;

for everyone who lives on milk, being still an infant,

is unskilled in the word of righteousness.

But solid food is for the mature,

for those whose faculties have been trained by practice

to distinguish good from evil.

I am ready for what once would have overwhelmed me.

St. John of the Cross, from Dark Night of the Soul

"The soul, after it has been definitely converted to the service of God, is, as a rule, spiritually nurtured and caressed by God, even as is the tender child by its loving mother, who warms it with the heat of her bosom and nurtures it with sweet milk and soft and pleasant food, and carries it and caresses it in her arms; but, as the child grows bigger, the mother gradually ceases caressing it, and, hiding her tender love, puts bitter aloes upon her sweet breast, sets down the child from her arms and makes it walk upon its feet, so that it may lose the habits of a child and betake itself to more important and substantial occupations."

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