His Will, Not Mine
“My Father, let your will be done and not mine.” This word does not express resignation, but it reveals, in the divine soul that uttered it, a perfect state, that of abandonment. To resign oneself is the act of a love that still struggles amidst the resistances of nature. To abandon oneself is the act of a love that has definitively broken all these resistances, and which, from militant, has become triumphant. Jesus, at the hour of his bloody agony, felt his human nature shudder from the first pains of the Passion, but love, with a single impulse, dominated everything, and it was He who made the triumphant word of abandonment spring forth from his soul: “My Father, let your will be done and not mine.” »
We who, by choice, are guards of honor, must not be satisfied with resignation, but go to the end of abandonment. We must love enough to say to Jesus in the sincerity of our soul: “My Master, I give you all that I am, to unite myself with all that you are. I give you my body, my soul, all my senses, all the members of my body, all my faculties… Out of love for you, in advance, I give up my end of earthly life which awaits it…” Love needs to give up everything, this is why our intelligence, our heart, our will, our imagination, must be fully abandoned to it. For our intelligence will gather its thoughts in Him who is the Truth; our heart will fix our feelings in Him who is Love; our will will direct our efforts towards Him who is Good; our imagination will seek its representations and its colors in Him who is the Beautiful, and in this way, our whole life will take its course towards Him who is the Blessed End.
Here is a beautiful exercise that we can undertake at each of our hours of Presence, no doubt, that our soul will be completely impregnated with it from hour to hour, from day to day! (Comments on the zealous notes of Sr Marie du Sacré Cœur Bernaud – canon J.Théloz 1908)