How to know the Will of God
if God is my center and my end,
then I must accept the will of God,
knowing that in it lies the fullness of life for me, however obscure.
The question, of course, is,
How do we recognize the will of God?
How do we tell the will of God from our own?
How do we know when to resist the tide
and confront the opposition and
when to embrace the pain
and accept the bitterness because “God wills it for us.”
The answer lies in the fact that the Jesus who said,
“I have come not to do my own will but the will of the One who sent me”
is also the Jesus who prayed in Gethsemane,
“Let this chalice pass from me.”
The will of God for us is
what remains of a situation after
we try without stint and
pray without ceasing to change it.
Rule of Benedict: A Spirituality for the 21st Century
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