Blog Post 07-17-2025 Bending our will to God’s and become a “lake.”

 

"Let every knee bend before Thee, O greatness of my God, so supremely humbled in the Sacred Host. May every heart love Thee, every spirit adore Thee and every will be subject to Thee!" [St. Margaret Mary]

 

 

 

Maybe this story can help us, once there was a small monastery led by a very wise abbot. A young monk was having a hard time adjusting to the monastic life. He was constantly complaining & criticizing. The older monks … went to the abbot they concerned about him. One morning the abbot sent the novice to fetch some salt. When the novice returned, the abbot instructed the unhappy monk to put the salt in a glass of water & drink it.

"How does it taste?" the abbot asked. "Bitter!" said the novice. The abbot said, "Get some more salt & follow me."  They walked to a small lake near the monastery. "Throw the salt into the lake."  The novice did as the abbot asked. The Abbot said, "Take a drink from the lake."  "How does it taste?"  "Sweet & clean," said the young monk. "… the pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less.

The amount of pain in life remains exactly the same. But the bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So, when you are in pain, when you hurt, when you feel broken, the only thing you can do is enlarge your sense of things. Stop being a glass. Become a lake."     [Connections, April 19, 2015]

 

 Jesus wants us to become “lakes” by bending our will to God’s Will.

 

May God Be Praised.