Miracle Morning 20

Forgive me for my selfishness. It comes out when I feel lost and desperate for help. I take up my cross, but then I don't know where to take it. I don't know the details of how to follow Him right now. Still struggling in prayer over the concrete service I am called to give. Trying to learn to follow Him by being still and silent, trusting and waiting. Trying, but not always succeeding. What I share is merely the teaching I have been given. God’s responses to me. The fruits of contemplation. Experiential knowledge. Never mere untested theory. I believe in teaching by letting others witness my life; passing on not only the facts but also the emotional weight of the lessons, present and past. Its not pride to do this. I want to stand beside you, not above you. You are just like me. Maybe we have personality differences, and contrary tastes, but we are all seeking the same End. Praising the same Lord. Feeling the same joys. Filling the same lack in the sufferings of Christ. The path that I choose is always the one that bears faithful witness to the Truth, the truth of the primacy of Love as defined by the Catholic Church. You have to trust me though, if not, the teacher cannot perform his miracles for you here. In turn, I trust you too. Not to give me exactly what I want in this moment, unless God wills it, but always certainly to grow into your full stature of grace. I trust that you will. I pray that you will. All that is left is the careful and plodding work - and fun if we let it be - of hashing out, through community, what we think Love wants us to do, together. Love wants to capture and transform each and every passing thought and emotion and interaction, if only we invite Him to. The more frequently we turn to Love, the faster He does train us in the mind of Christ. The more we start to think like we are Christ in the world today, as we work, as we speak, as we eat and sleep and clean and play, the easier it becomes to make bold decisions for Love's glory. Not as the world loves, but as God loves. Both joy and sorrow. Both wide and deep. Some must love wide to become deep. Others must go deep to grow wide. The more we realize that pouring out this Love is all that matters, and the less time we waste worrying about our earthly status, the more time we can give to each other. All our needs are contained in the gentle, patient, humble, and pure expression of Love. Our worries are a measure of our idolatry. They ought to be kept subordinate. All concern should be for Christ first, always and everywhere, and then, within Him, for the people He puts in our lives. Everything else will take care of itself. We are totally free to give our whole being to following these two commandments. That is the only true freedom. That is the only true faith.