Mary models for us how to give our will to God for His purposes, although many times doing that seems confusing and bewildering take a few minutes to ponder Henry Osswan Tanner’s painting of the Annunciation, although Mary was puzzled by the Angel’s message, she gave her will to God.
Meister Eckhart provides us this insight, “Nothing makes us true men and women but the giving up of our will. The only perfect and true will comes from entering into God’s will and being without self-will. For the perfection of our will means being in harmony with the divine will by willing what God wills, and the way he wills it. … This is the true inner detachment: in it, the spirit stands immovable in the face of everything that befalls it, whether it is good or bad, honor or disgrace or calumny, just as a broad mountain stands immovable in the face of a little breeze.” [A Quiet Heart, Meister Eckhart]
May God Be Praised
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