"Parents’ Prayer, Everyone’s Prayer: ‘Be Done Unto Me’"
"Parents’ Prayer, Everyone’s Prayer: ‘Be Done Unto Me’"
A family came out to visit me in Albuquerque a few weeks ago, with three little ones sick with croup. The house sounded like barking dogs for three days! I did five full loads of laundry – they had vomited on everything in the house. I couldn’t believe life could be that hard. You couldn’t have one conversation or one meal undisturbed. And I thought we religious had the harder life. It’s not even in the same ballpark! What parents go through to raise children is above and beyond the call of duty. Yet they rise to the occasion, more often than not.
I can see why God ordered the continuation of the human race through parenting: God had to find a way for all of us to get out of ourselves. We need reality checks that are simply there, like a brick wall, that demand a response, with no room for choice or “discernment.” That’s the best way to become holy. It’s not what you do, it’s what you allow to be done to you.
Seeking God and holiness becomes too self-conscious unless you allow it to lead you farter than you intended, holiness comes from what you allow to be done to you by the circumstances of life, by the people who are there right in front of you. We don’t convert ourselves; we are converted.
from Letting Go: A Spirituality of Subtraction
A family came out to visit me in Albuquerque a few weeks ago, with three little ones sick with croup. The house sounded like barking dogs for three days! I did five full loads of laundry – they had vomited on everything in the house. I couldn’t believe life could be that hard. You couldn’t have one conversation or one meal undisturbed. And I thought we religious had the harder life. It’s not even in the same ballpark! What parents go through to raise children is above and beyond the call of duty. Yet they rise to the occasion, more often than not.
I can see why God ordered the continuation of the human race through parenting: God had to find a way for all of us to get out of ourselves. We need reality checks that are simply there, like a brick wall, that demand a response, with no room for choice or “discernment.” That’s the best way to become holy. It’s not what you do, it’s what you allow to be done to you.
Seeking God and holiness becomes too self-conscious unless you allow it to lead you farter than you intended, holiness comes from what you allow to be done to you by the circumstances of life, by the people who are there right in front of you. We don’t convert ourselves; we are converted.
from Letting Go: A Spirituality of Subtraction
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