Reflect
Trust in the slow work of God. If we try to control our lives, we will never be at peace. Wait with openness and unclench your fists. Without grasping, receive fully what God has for you.
Pray
Dear God, your incarnate life on earth is a continual openness
to the will of the Father. Teach me to receive and be open,
rather than clenching tightly to what I want.
May I learn surrender from you, knowing that deep surrender brings deeper freedom.
Amen.
Act
Are there things or people in my life to whom I am tightly clinging? Name them and ask Jesus to help you surrender with open hands, not clenched fists.
1 thought on “Incarnational Waiting”
Detachment can sound rather ethereal until one is faced with the necessity of it. In my present stage of life, that’s where I am now, having to make decisions, decisions, decisions, about so much that I have gathered as an academic and no longer need or want. The hardest to part with are most often things given one for nothing but love and appreciation. A hearse has no U-Haul attached.