aeternus

I have been on an impromptu sojourn Eastward where at the last minute we decided to drive East to be with our families during Thanksgiving. It was so very wonderful to spend time together and be rejuvinated in each other’s spirits. Though it was a LONG drive, I am glad we decided to go. A belated Happy Thanksgiving to you all and I hope you were all filled with peace and love with your families (because thats NOT always easy is it?!)

Before we left I was lucky enough to hear a conference by a most wonderful priest who spoke on many topics of prayer but did focus very much on the Our Father. It all boiled down to him repeating with great excitement over and over, “not MY will be done but YOUR WILL be done — not MY will be done but YOUR WILL be done — not MY will be done but YOUR WILL be done — not MY will be done but YOUR WILL be done — not MY will be done but YOUR WILL be done!” It did not take long to get the point of his homily!

This phrase has been turning over and over in my head (like a song you just can’t gete rid of) and I suppose it might be because someone is trying to tell me something. Nevertheless, it rang a loud bell in me yesterday as the phrase popped up when I was reading the introduction of Saint Alphonsus de Ligouri’s “Uniformity With God’s Will”. He writes:

“During our sojourn in this world, we should learn from the saints now in heaven, how to love God. The pure and perfect love of God they enjoy there, consists in uniting themselves perfectly to his will. It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a garden for all eternity, if they found out such was God’s will. Our Lord himself teaches us to ask to do the will of God on earth as the saints do it in heaven: “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”"

I think I will continue to take this as my meditation of the day…