If we guide our decisions/lives by God’s love “…all things (will) work for good.”  We believe that in the end God will triumph!  Our calling, our responsibility is to listen [obey] the Lord and do His Will.

 

In Les Miserables Marius says, “There are thoughts which are prayers.  These are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.”  We should strive to live our life with our soul on its knees so that we live a life of prayer.

St. John of the Cross said that God will judge us “… by the manner in which we perform…” our deeds, our actions.

How can we know whether or not new are doing God’s Will?  Maybe this prayer by Thomas Merton can help us,

“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. 

I do not see the road ahead of me. 

I cannot know for certain where it will end. 

Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. 

But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. 

And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. 

I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. 

And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. 

Therefore I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. 

I will not fear, for you are ever with me,

and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.” 

(Merton - Thoughts in Solitude, p. 81)

May God Be Praised!