Today my friend, Ieva, who is one of the corps leaders for Riga 2 and the regional prayer coordinator, had some good words for me. She reminded me that I had nothing to worry about regarding training – “It’s all about God’s grace” she said. Every step of the way it is a miracle and grace moment. She also reminded me that the whole process, including me, is covered in so much prayer that she knows we are protected from a lot that might happen, especially due to our (my) own will and wisdom or lack of. She says these things so casually and matter-of-fact(ly?), it’s all natural to her. I know the truth of what she says and am experiencing it, but my nature wants to fret and worry and be in control. I have a lot to learn from Ieva. And then my advent reading for today reinforced and took me further with this lesson – IT’S NOT ABOUT ME!!
Rev. 1:8 "I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty."
Our repose is to rejoice in the infinite happiness of God and, on a lower scale, in our own crosses, and to desire still more of them, for in them we have the privilege of imitating him and proving our love, and there is nothing dearer to the heart that loves. We shall never lack either this happiness, nor God nor the Cross.
How can one pity anyone who is doing the will of the Lord? Is there anything sweeter on earth than to do the will of him one loves? And if it gives one some trouble to carry it out, the sweetness is all the greater.
–from Meditations of a Hermit by Charles de Foucauld
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