Mechthild of Magdeburg reached a point of fragility when she became blind and wasn’t able to dress or feed herself...and God took away all traces of the felt sense of God’s love. She comes to the end of her life in a state of powerlessness....She becomes utterly ordinary, falling away from the ability to gain footing by her own power to do anything at all. She says that if God wishes her to live this way, then she wishes it too. -- Fr Richard's Daily Meditation, October 27, 2023
Earlier this morning, before I read of Mechthild's experience, my thinking hovered around my old age bringing me into this state. I felt no fear, no trepidation, I simply allowed it as a possibility.
Later when I read Fr Richard's Daily Meditation, I got validation, acceptance, of this not as a future fact for me but as a future possibility...that such, too, would be on God's watch, so to speak, so therefore right for me.
Most importantly, I was reminded that in death as in life God's will, God's way seldom is in concert with our personal wants. There...another rejoice and be glad.
Thank you.
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