I've been (not very diligently) reading a thirty-day meditation. It is very short, which is why I accepted to do so. I haven't gotten too much from it, but at Day Twenty, I would like to record "My Day Begins" (My day began hours ago, this is how committed I am to this).
"Whether God leads you
by suffering or consolation
will make no difference
if you truly resign yourself to finding his will.
But you can be sure
that there will be times of spiritual dryness,
of spiritual insensibility,
of exasperating difficulties
whenever you try to pray.
God will test your fidelity to him.
This is the time
to make good and effective
acts of resignation to his will,
for even such one act
could lead to spiritual growth."
What I really liked about today's meditation was first the idea that when we suffer, we will be okay throughout it if we can try to find God's will in it, for we will know that the suffering is really just in preparation for receiving what is good; what we are currently incapable of possessing, and second, that spiritual dryness is an action of God, not the inaction of man. That experiencing difficulty in prayer is really just a test that we are predestined to pass.
When we can be accepting of our shortcomings it doesn't necessarily mean that we have resigned to being undisciplined, or not good, but rather, it the acknowledgement that may permit even greater spiritual growth.
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