... but obedience will do. The saints sought to arrive at the place in their relationship to Christ that their one longing was to live and walk in a way that would please God and bring glory to God’s name. Obedience meant abandonment. Jean-Pierre de Caussade wrote to one who depended upon his spiritual guidance that abandonment to God “is, of all practices, the most divine.” Your way of acting in times of trouble and distress gives me great pleasure. To be submissive, to abandon yourself entirely without ...
