OUR DESPERATE NEED...OUR GIFT

I  like to think of God's will for me as doing good for somebody somewhere while it's working itself out for me. 

Any need I have God is already on it. It may be he's moving Gertrude out of the way in order to fulfill that need, but the time it takes will be for my ultimate best...and, just as an aside, in the end seldom bears any resemblance to what I thought I needed.

The thing to remember is that we can relish the time it takes for God's will to show itself in our life for it is always for our ultimate best. It may seem that somebody else is taking their own sweet time in relishing God's good will when we're feeling so desperately in need, but there it is...that's the gift.
It is our desperate need that brings the transformation, that causes our will to finally break, let go, crash and burn.

As Fr. Richard Rohr writes this morning. "But transformation * * *  more often happens not when something new begins but when something old falls apart."

Thank you.