Thy Grace is my Sufficiency

May it please the supreme and divine Goodness

to give us all abundant grace

ever to know its most holy will

and perfectly to fulfill it.

      - Saint Ignatious of Loyola

I remember the first time a wise woman began speaking to me about  "thy will be done".  I was not at all open to the concept...I mean, what if "thy"will was vastly different from "my" will?  Why would I ever want to surrender to that?  I smile at those thoughts now ... I wonder how I thought I had so much power and control that I could choose to persuade God to transform thy will into mine?  Or, even more, that I thought my ideas and desires were better than God's?  YIKES!   

  AND THEN I BECAME WILLING

I sought to know, what is God's will? I am willing ... but how will I know what it is?

AND THEN I BEGAN TO LISTEN

The still small voice was willing to repeat itself again and again and again, until I was able to hear ... and over time, it grew stronger and stronger.

AND THEN I CAME TO BELIEVE...

AND THAT HAS MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE!!!

GRATEFULLY,

Cate