Awesome passage from Manifesting God by Thomas Keating:
As love increases, one feels at times that one is an instrument of God. Maybe it is too personal an experience to generalize, but I have seen it happen in a number of people. If they have certain spiritual gifts, it feels as if someone else is supplying them with the inspiration and energy they need to exercise them. Such a person might be compared to a pencil that is picked up at the appropriate time. If that person is inspired to write or speak, he or she knows that the divine Spirit is working through him or her. It is not the same kind of inspiration that we attribute to the authors of Scripture, of course. But these people know that the energy they have is not coming from themselves. When the divine Mover puts down the pencil, their source of energy goes too, and they feel to the full their normal inability to do anything useful for the Kingdom of God . . . until this dynamic presence picks them up again.
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