Meditation:
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "Today, if you hear
his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on
the day of testing in the wilderness, where your fathers put
me to the test and saw my works for forty years. Therefore I
was provoked with that generation, and said, 'They always go
astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.' As I
swore in my wrath, 'They shall not enter my rest.'"
-- Hebrews 3:7-11 (ESV)

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Quotation:
If the Christian penitent dares to ask that his many
departures from the Christian norm, his impatience, gloom,
self-occupation, unloving prejudices, reckless tongue,
feverish desires, with all the damage they have caused to
Christ's Body, be set aside, because--because, in spite of all,
he longs for God and Eternal Life: then he must set aside and
forgive all that the impatience, selfishness, bitter and
foolish speech, and sudden yieldings to base impulse by others
have caused him to endure. Hardness is the one impossible
thing. Harshness to others in those who ask and need the mercy
of God sets up a conflict at the very heart of personality and
shuts the door upon grace.
... Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941), Abba [1940]