RETURN TO OUR DECISION...REPEATEDLY

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed. -- Saint Francis De Sales

My BFO: Staying power - the only thing that determines personal staying power is our own willingness...even when there is no desire.

The big whoop is learning that the willingness is not to stay with our own idea of what we believe we need. No. The key is to be willing to open our mind...to admit that although we know what it is we want, we do not know what it is we need. 

The fact is that deciding what it is we actually want takes a lot of pondering. Once we can make a decision as to what it is we want, then we let God do his perfect work in and through us. The other big whoop, is that what we get is often not be what we thought we wanted...but we will know that it is exactly what we need.

God can and will intervene in our lives in our behalf...it is just that the reasoning mind doesn't always recognize God's perfect work right off. That's when our staying power comes in...we rest in our admission of utter defeat and...repeatedly...return to our decision to let go and let God.

Thank You.