MONDAY THOUGHT 7/20/09

July 20, 2009 on 11:57 am | By John Ingrisano | In Faith & Forgiveness | 1 Comment

 

Burn the Wish List
 
Guilty as charged!  I pray out of both sides of my mouth.  “Lord, whatever you want, that’s all I want.  Thy will be done.  Oh, but let me first slip in an amendment on page 547 of my petition … for that new Mercedes, two or three miracle healings and a pony for the grandchild.  Then we can get to the stuff you want.”
 
I tend to do that.  And then — and here’s the punch line on my spiritual joke — I tend to become obsessed (“When, Oh, Lord, when?”) and then discouraged and then angry.  (“Lord, you fraud, you!”)  I’m like a kid after too much sugar and not enough sleep, thrashing about — furious and exhausted – in his parent’s arms, not knowing really what I want, but wanting it now. 
 
My point:  Maybe we should skip our wish list — let it go, burn it — and instead leave it at, “Lord, I leave my needs in your hands, trusting that whatever you send my way to do, endure, or enjoy this day, that is quite sufficient, thank you.  — jri
 
“[H]e who has God and everything else
has no more than he who has God alone.”
        –    C.S. Lewis
               (The Weight of Glory)

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  1. Here’s one of my favorite prayers on this subject…I only added the maternal reference…

    Father/Mother,
    I abandon myself into your hands; do with me what you will.
    Whatever you may do, I thank you:
    I am ready for all, I accept all.
    Let only your will be done in me, and in all your creatures.
    I wish no more than this, O Lord.

    Into your hands I commend my soul;
    I offer it to you
    with all the love of my heart,
    for I love you, Lord,
    and so need to give myself,
    to surrender myself into your hands,
    without reserve,
    and with boundless confidence,
    for you are my Father/Mother.

    Charles de Foucald

    Comment by Mary Tudela — July 20, 2009 #

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