Monday, August 26, 2024

Renouncing Self-Sufficiency

This means we put ourselves fully at God’s disposal. We overcome the difficulties of life by trusting ourselves to God who asks and who knows what he is asking for, without envisaging a success rate on the basis of our own possibilities and natural gifts. It is never impossible to obey. When this does seem to be the case, a great opportunity arises for the conversion of our heart and mind to the infinite possibility of God. So far as we place ourselves at God's disposal, we become a space in which divine omnipotence can move.


CRISTIANA PICCARDO Living Wisdom: The Mission and Transmission of Monasticism