Ave Maria Meditations
“If you love Me, keep My commands.” (Jn 14:15)
If the business of becoming holy seems to present insufferable difficulties, it is merely because we have a wrong idea about it. In reality, holiness consists of one thing only; complete loyalty to God’s will. God, who is all goodness, has made easily available for all the things necessary for life, such as earth, air and water.
And what could be more vital than breathing, eating and sleeping? And what is easier? When we turn to spiritual matters, love and loyalty are just as vital, so they cannot be as difficult to acquire as we imagine. Consider your life, and you will see that it consists of countless trifling actions. Yet God is quite satisfied with them, for doing them as they should be done is the part we have to play in our striving for perfection. There can be no doubt about this. Holy Scripture makes it very plain: “Fear God, and keep his commandments, since this is the whole duty of man” (Eccles. 12:13). This is all we have to do.
+Jean-Pierre de Caussade (Abandonment to Divine Providence)
