Let God love you in his own way
You can ask for divine love and reject it when it arrives through a correction, a wait, or an unexpected person.
You have an understandable idea of how God should care for you: solving a problem, confirming a plan, or giving you an experience of comfort. When something else happens, you interpret silence.
Trusting does not force you to call every event good or to give up asking. It allows you to keep open the possibility that love is acting in a way you do not yet understand: giving strength, changing a desire, or sending humble help.
Discerning that action requires the Gospel, counsel, and time; not just any difficult voice comes from God. But a real relationship does not always dictate how the other must express themselves. Letting yourself be loved includes receiving gifts not designed by you and discovering later why they were food.
Key idea
Trust allows you to ask with sincerity and, at the same time, remain open to forms of divine care different from what you imagined.
Your challenge for this idea
Present a concrete petition to God and add three different ways—honest and good—in which you could recognize his care even if your preferred option does not occur.
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Divine Filiation →