Glorifying the Father
Lord, you know that I would like to serve you but that I am still attached to my work and to my judgment; that I am constantly scurrying back into myself to survey everything from my angle of vision: that I do this in order not to do that, that I desire this and loathe that.
Whereas you showed us in every moment of your earthly life, and especially on the cross, what it means to do the will of another. For you this other was the Father who is so perfect that you regarded every one of his decisions as perfect and accepted it in advance, without sizing it up first yourself. Not because of any judgment you might have arrived at after trying and weighing each case, but out of love….
Grant us a share in this power of your Sonship, allow us to learn to love the Father in the way that you love him, to come to him through you and your filial attitude, to become obedient by the strength of your perfect obedience….
Grant that we may no longer seek our own interests in anything…not in order to lose all interest in you and the world, but in order to begin, at long last, to love you and the Father in the Holy Spirit above all things. Amen.
Adrienne von Speyr
Adrienne von Speyr († 1967) was a Swiss medical doctor, theologian, and spiritual author. [With God And With Men, Adrian Walker, Tr. © 1995, Ignatius Press, San Francisco, CA. www.ignatius.com. Used with permission.]
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