Ave Maria Meditations
What a joy to be able to say at the end of our days: I have always tried to seek and to follow God’s Will in everything! The successes we have had will not gladness half so much, nor will the failures and the sufferings we have undergone matter in the slightest. What will matter to us, and matter a lot, is whether we have loved God’s Will in preference to our own and made it active in our lives, whether the divine Will showed itself, as it does at times, in a more general way, or, on other occasions, in a more immediate and very specific form. Always perceptible, it will be seeing clearly enough if we do not become blind to that light of the soul we call conscience.
The loving fulfillment of God’s Will is, at the same time, the summit of our holiness. All Christ’s faithful then will grow daily more holy in the conditions their life imposes, its duties and its circumstances. These things will be the means of their advances in holiness, if they combine their faith with an acceptance of everything that comes from the hand of their heavenly Father, and if they are cooperative with the divine Will.
It is here that we demonstrate our love for God as well as the closeness of our union with Him. And God will make clear what His Will is by means of the commandments, the indications, the councils and precepts of our holy mother the Church, and the duties that are involved in one’s own vocation and state in life. The recognition and love of the divine Will in these duties will give us the strength to carry them out as perfectly as possible.
From “In Conversation with God”
