I had tea yesterday with a great theologian,
and he asked me,
“What is your experience of God’s will?”
I liked that question –
for the distillation of thought hones thought in others.
Clarity, I know, is freedom.
What is my experience of God’s will?
Everyone is a traveler. Most all need lodging, food,
and clothes.
I let enter my mouth what will enrich me. I wear what
will make my eye content,
I sleep where I will
wake with the
strength to
deeply
love
all my mind can
hold.
What is God’s will for a wing?
Every bird knows
that.
~ St. Teresa of Avila ~
(Love Poems From God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West by Daniel Ladinsky)
This St. Teresa was a Catholic Saint who lived in Spain in the Sixteenth Century.
The last sentence answers so many questions for me. I hope it speaks to you as well.
Sue
