God's will be done

     Accepting all as God’s will is such a challenge!

     

     The good things that happen are certainly easy to accept and see God’s hand in them; then we thank and praise Him. It’s the difficult things that just seem to happen – the trials that purify our will and challenge us to trust when everything within us feels like rebelling or just giving up!

     It certainly isn't easy to have total trust and abandonment to God’s ordaining and permissive will, but life offers us plenty of opportunities to practice. The first thing we must do is to remind ourselves that God is with us in our trials and troubles. He loves us so very much that He would not allow anything to happen in our lives, if it was not ultimately for the good of our salvation. Next, we need to remain in the present moment and not allow ourselves to walk down the path of the unknown future in our imagination. We all have quite vivid imaginations, and can come up with all kinds of scenarios that usually don’t come to pass. When we find ourselves tempted to ‘Imagine,’ remember that God’s name is I AM, not I was or I will be . . .this helps us to stay or come back to the present where God’s grace is given to us. We need to pray and beg our dear sweet God to pour down His special graces into our souls to help us achieve this difficult goal. Let us go to our Mother Mary as well, and ask that we be open to accept the grace of total trust and abandonment to God’s will in our lives – a grace that she lived most perfectly.