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SUMMARY:St. Teresa of Avila
DESCRIPTION:SURRENDERING OUR WILL TO GOD\nFrom the writing of St Teresa of Ávila 3\n◊◊◊\nWe can promise easily enough to give up our will to someone else\, but\nwhen it comes to the test we find it the most difficult thing in the world to do\nperfectly. But God knows what each of us is able to bear\, and when he finds a\nvaliant soul he does not hesitate to accomplish his will in that person.\nSo I want to warn you and make you understand what God’s will is\, so that\nyou may realize with whom you are dealing (as the saying goes) and what the\ngood Jesus is offering on your behalf to the Father. I want you to make sure you\nknow what you are giving him when you say\, “Your will be done.” You are asking\nthat God’s will may be done in you; it is this and nothing else you are praying for.\nYou need not be afraid he will give you wealth or pleasures or great honors or\nany earthly good things; his love for you is not so weak as that. He sets a far\ngreater value on your gift and desires to reward you generously\, giving you his\nkingdom even in this life. \nWould you like to see how he treats people who make this petition without\nreserve? Ask his glorious Son\, who made it genuinely and resolutely in the\ngarden. Was not God’s will accomplished in him through the trials\, the\nsufferings\, the insults and the persecutions he sent him until at last his life was\nended on the cross? You see then what God gave to one he loved best of all\, and\nthat shows you what his will is. These things are his gifts in this world\, and he\ngives them in proportion to his love for us. To those he loves most he gives more\,\nto those less dear he gives less; his gifts are measured by the courage he sees we\nhave and the love we bear his Majesty. Fervent love can suffer a great deal for his\nsake\, while lukewarmness will endure very little. I myself believe that love is the\ngauge of the crosses\, great or small\, that we are able to bear. \nSo if you have this love\, think what you are doing. Do not let the promises\nyou make to so great a Lord be no more than empty compliments\, but brace\nyourselves to suffer whatever God wishes. Any other way of surrendering our\nwill to him is like offering someone a precious stone\, entreating him to accept it\,\nand then holding onto it when he puts out his hand to take it. Such mockery is\nnot for him who endured so much mockery for us. If for no other reason\, it\nwould be wrong to mock him in this way every time we say the Lord’s Prayer. Let\nus give him once and for all the precious stone we have offered him so many\ntimes — for he in fact first gave us the thing we now give back to the Father. \n3Obras de Santa Teresa\, pp. 238-242; reprinted in Meditations on the Sunday Gospels: Year C; introduced and edited by John\nE. Rotelle\, Hyde Park\, NY: New City Press\, 1995\, pp. 106-107.
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