This glimpse of my girls peaceful play made me pause and think about my devotions the other day:
"God's will is also marked out for me by the circumstances of my life, whether important or not, down the smallest detail, health or sickness, poverty or wealth, aridity or interior consolation, success or failure, misfortunes, losses, and struggles…. everything is permitted by Him, all is ordered by Him for my sanctification.
Everything is a grace."
(Teresa of the Child Jesus)
My goal in these challenging weeks ahead is to manage my little world with the peace and calm with which they manage their little world, to try hard to remember these lines, and to know it is all working together as it should. I don't need to understand it all nor be able to see where it's all going. I just need to remember that "sanctity does not consist in doing extraordinary things, but it is essentially reduced to the fulfillment of duty, therefore it is possible for me." (Benedict XV) I need do nothing more than the next thing, cheerfully.
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Reading this I can hear Elizabeth Elliot’s calm, gentle-yet-in-control voice, “Do the next thing.” Thanks for the reminder.
Beautiful picture. Your girls are getting so big!
“I just need to remember that ‘sanctity does not consist in doing extraordinary things, but it is essentially reduced to the fulfillment of duty, therefore it is possible for me.’ (Benedict XV) I need do nothing more than the next thing, cheerfully. ”
Such wise words. I struggle with this because I can do my duty but the constant message that it’s not “enough” hovers in the background. It is. I know it is. Thanks for the reminder.
Oh yes it hovers close. Such a vicious cycle. We succomb to doing the “more” and then we feel the actual duty part is not possible. Reeling all that back in over here.
thank you so much for the reminder. God bless~