List of points
There are 3 points in The Forge which the material is Poverty → Christ's example .
Aren’t you glad to feel the poverty of Jesus so close to you? How splendid it is to be lacking even what is necessary! But as He did, it must be borne silently and unnoticed.
Nazareth: a way of faith, of detachment: a way in which the Creator subjects himself to his creatures as he does to his Heavenly Father.
If we are close to Christ and are following in his footsteps, we will wholeheartedly love poverty, privation and detachment from earthly things.
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