We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us. - Saint Teresa of Avila
Such a simple sentence. If we could...or is it "would?"...live that single two-fold sentence, we for sure could and would live free.
Toward that end, a new insight for me: Being 80 is not nearing end of life, it is beginning the freedom of living shucked of my shackles...no longer constantly seeking to correct myself, but finally knowing God as showing forth through me. Whenever I do something that rings my own regret bell, I hit reset and rest knowing God is shucking another shackle of my selfwill.
Oh, blinding flash of the obvious: To think anything needs be changed is an ego trip...love it just as it is.
I tend to take my BFOs for serious since they so seldom match up with my reasoning mind. Fortunately for my own comfort, I no longer get in mental arguments, I just loose my resistance and let God do his thing.
Most of the time...I mean, who's kidding whom? Like with this one, to think anything needs be changed is an ego trip...love it just as it is. Well. In a perfect world, maybe. But....
And there goes me, all set to arm-wrestle with God.
To think anything needs be changed is an ego trip...love it just as it is. Underneath isn't that the heart, the how-to, of Saint Teresa of Avila's words? We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
K.I.S.S.
Thank you.
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