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"If you want to put your entire self into what you do, if you want to give yourself completely, if you want to be fully at the service of others, if you want to love with all your heart, if you want to pray with total attention, then strive to take perfect possession of your body, your heart, your spirit, and all their robust vitality, strive to take possession of yourself and then you will be able to say: I am acting, I am giving myself, I am at the service of others, I am loving, I am praying.
To live life at its fullest means to draw together all your energies, to unify them, to personalize them, and to concentrate them on the present moment just as a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun on a particular spot. And the [person] who has unified his own personal life is able to bring tranquility and peace into the lives of others. If you want to be a bearer of peace to others, you first have to establish peace in your own interior household..."
Rev. Michel Quoist, in "The Meaning of Success", Indiana, A Fides Dome Book, 1963, p34-35
posted by Holly at 1:05 PM
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What Father Quoist is talking about here is living a life of intelligent decision - where we live not by the whim of the moment, nor by impulse, nor urgency, nor by coasting - but by well-thought out decisions. For we only love by acts of the will.
Our society glorifies feelings and passion and impulses, and dismisses reason and intellect. But we are made in God's image, which is our ability to reason, to decide, and hence to love.
Our Mother's Rule encourages us to think out our lives -logically assessing the responsibilities God has requested us - and implement conscious and reasonable decisions. To live a truly human life, as opposed to the instinctual life of an animal...
Let's commit to become all that God intends for us to be - a self-possessed woman of the Lord, who knows what is good and true and acts upon it; a woman whom God can count on to fulfill her mission; a woman God would trust with His very Self. Let us say "I will - I will do Your Will, Lord... I will commit myself to my vocation as per Your request..."
And then we will become the channels of divine grace we long to be for our families.
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