This subject has been coming up in my conversations with Catholic friends as well. So, to give it another dimension, surrender is not passivity or quietism (we still have to act and strive). It’s more of a re-orientation of disposition and ‘strength’. Empty my cup that’s filled with broken, weakened intellect/understanding, will, memories, imagination, emotions, limited physical strength & capability… to create space for much more wholesome ‘contents’. Humility is not a weakness but strength, allowing space for drawing from much bigger source than what my silly little self could ever provide.
Let my cup be filled with graces and gifts of the Holy Spirit. Let my virtues be ‘supernaturalized’. Let my vision be cleared. Let all my faculties be the reflection of my Adoption by our Heavenly Father (as we learned in the course on virtues)… so that my understanding, words and actions of each day may become much better oriented, clarified, purified, elevated – towards the One for Whose purposes I have been made and put here. And so become whole – in Him.
So that’s a big circle back to Gabriel’s thoughts – the more ’empty’ and humble we can be, the more filled and full-filled!
Isn’t our Faith wonderful and truly fascinating? 🙂
God’s thoughts are SO FAR above ours. In His Mercy, He lets us dip into those waters when we are ’empty’, and become who we were meant to be all along. Blessed be God!
