Acholi: Madame Guyon: Lega ne onwongo rac atika, Louis XIV kikome oweko ki make.

 Madame Guyon: Lega ne onwongo rac atika, Louis XIV kikome oweko ki make.

Nong lok ma pe ki waco i kom dako mo ma latoo ma la France ma openyo Lubanga pi deno can ki en onongo ne weny - ma ki keto i buc tyen angwen labongo ngolo kop i wiye, ma ki keto i buc ki ngat ma tek loyo i lobo France, ma kome lit ki two jonyo, ki kwanyo lutino ne, nyinge, ki bedo agonya- ki ma owero jabuli ki i kom yat ma ki lwongo ni Bastille ki two ma ki lwongo ni pestille dano ma gwoko ot ni gu diyo it gi i doggola ne ki gu koko labongo ngeyo pingo. I lok man ma ki coyo ma tek ni, lok pa Madame Jeanne Guyon nyutu ngo ma Lubanga kelo kun wok ki i cwiny ma oweko pe adwogi keken ento yub weny - kit ma coc pa dako mo ma oling mot okato ki i lobo mapol ki cencwari mapol me yubu John Wesley, Hudson Taylor, Watchman Nee, Quakers me Pennsy, ki kwo ma okati ki i lobo adek ni — ki jami adek ma pat pat wel cente ma mite me rwenyo jami weng ma lobo waco ni imito me nongo gin acel ma lobo pe twero miini ki pe twero kwanyo.

Ki i buk ne, yoo me lega ma cok ki yot, pwony ne ocung i kom jami adek ma yot ma obedo gin ma kelo alokaloka.

¶Mukwongo, leg ginacoya, pi pi ngec, ento pi rwate. Kwan motmot, kwan tyeng mogo manok keken nio ka nyig lok acel nyo nyig lok acel ogudo cwinyi. Ki dong juk. Juk woko. Mak lok meno mot. Ywee iye. Pe ibed ka nyamo ne. Wek omi cam boti. Miti ne pe obedo ngec. En tye bedo tye.

¶Me aryo, keto cwiny ma yot. I nino ma rwate, tic, wot, tedo, lok tam ni mot mot i kom ngec ma ling pa Lubanga ma bedo i cwinyi. Tam ni obi rweny woko. Meno aye gin ma ki tamo. Tic ni tye me dwogo cen mot mot labongo ngolo kop i komi keni. Ngec ma ling mot ma mede ki mede. Itye kany. Meno oromo.

¶Me adek, weko. Pe i mi adwogi keken ento yub me cwiny ni weny bot Lubanga. Wek temo yubu bedo maleng piri keni. Tim tic weng maber. Man onwongo pe obedo pi kwero tic, ento tim ne labongo tute matek, labongo lworo i kom adwogi ne, labongo juku komi kekeni kare weny ma ipoto piny. Wek ngwec ki yeya matek. Gen gin ma tye ka time ni.

Madame Guyon owaco ne maleng.

Lega obedo gin ma pire tek me bedo maber ki yomcwiny. Yo me doko ngat ma pe ki roc aye me kwo i nyim Lubanga.

Man onongo rac adada. I lobo ma niyee nyutu yub me tekwaro ki twero pa dul, ma niyee nyutu yub me tekwaro ki twero pa dul, en onwongo tye ka waco ki dano ma rwom gi lapiny, lutic, lucat wil, lunyodo, lupur, ni gi miito gin mo kiken me ngeyo Lubanga kikome, cwiny ma oyabe keken, keto tam ma rwate, miti ma ki miyo. En ocoyo buk ne. Onya calo mac. Ki ladit ne me cwiny, Father LaCombe, en owoto i Alps, Geneva, Turin, Grenobyl.

“Man obedo lok ada madit, ma mwonya kit ma pe kitwero kwerone kwede, ni yomcwinywa ducu — me kare manok, me cwiny, ki me labenaka — tye i gin acel; ma en aye, i miyo kwowa bot Lubanga, ki i weko kwowa bote, me timo kwedwa ki i kinwa kit ma en mito kwede.” — Madame Guyon

(English)

Madame Guyon: Her Prayer Was So Dangerous, Louis XIV Personally Had Her Arrested .

Discover the untold story of a French widow who asked God for suffering and received it in full measure -who was imprisoned four times without trial, condemned by the most powerful churchman in France, disfigured by smallpox, stripped of her children, her reputation, and her freedom- and who sang psalms through the iron bars of the Bastille with a peace so inexplicable that hardened prison guards pressed their ears to her door and wept without knowing why. In this powerful documentary, the story of Madame Jeanne Guyon reveals what God produces through a soul that has surrendered not just outcomes but the entire process - how one silenced woman's writings crossed continents and centuries to shape John Wesley, Hudson Taylor, Watchman Nee, the Quakers of Pennsylvania, and the deeper life movement across three continents — and what it truly costs to lose everything the world says you need in order to find the one thing the world cannot give and cannot take.

From her book, A Short and Easy Method of Prayer, her teaching rested on three movements so simple they were revolutionary. 

¶First, pray the scripture, not for information, but for encounter. Read slowly, just a few verses until a single word or phrase touches your heart. Then stop. Stop completely. Hold that word gently. Rest in it. Do not analyze it. Let it nourish you. The goal is not knowledge. It is presence. 

¶Second, simple attention. Throughout the ordinary day, working, walking, cooking, gently turn your attention inward to the quiet awareness of God dwelling within you. Your mind will wander. That is expected. The practice is the gentle return again and again without self-condemnation. A quiet continuous awareness. You are here. That is enough. 

¶Third, abandonment. Yield not just outcomes but the entire spiritual process itself to God. Stop trying to manufacture your own holiness. Perform every duty fully. This was never about neglecting responsibility, but do it without frantic inner striving, without anxiety over results, without condemning yourself every time you fall short. Stop paddling so hard. Trust the current. 

Madame Guyon put it plainly. 

Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness. The way to become perfect is to live in the presence of God. 

This was dangerous. In a world where faith meant elaborate ritual and institutional permission, where faith meant elaborate ritual and institutional permission, she was telling ordinary people, servants, merchants, mothers, farmers, that they needed none of it to know God directly, just the open heart, just the turned attention, just the surrendered will. She wrote her book. It spread like fire. With her spiritual director, Father LaCombe, she traveled through the Alps, Geneva, Turin, Grenobyl. 

“It is a great truth, wonderful as it is undeniable, that all our happiness — temporal, spiritual, and eternal — consists in one thing; namely, in resigning ourselves to God, and in leaving ourselves with Him, to do with us and in us just as He pleases.” — Madame Guyon