Our will thus has a goal: to do always, even in small, ordinary tasks, what God wants us to do. Thus, we decide in every circumstance not what is most useful or pleasant for us, but what the Lord wants in that concrete situation. And since God wants the best, even if we do not immediately experience it, we are exercising freedom in the good, which is where it is truly realized. Therefore, when we exercise our freedom by making the divine will our own, we are turning our life into a continuous act of love.
Father, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.... And we dispose the soul not only to carry out the divine will, but to love what God does or permits. When events or circumstances do not allow us to choose, it is God who has already chosen for us. It is in these situations, sometimes humanly difficult, that we should say with peace: "Do you want it, Lord? They can be extraordinary occasions to trust more and more in God.
That divine will that we accept may be called suffering, illness or loss of a loved one. Or perhaps they are events that come to us through the simple events of each day or the passing of the days: accepting the passage of time that begins to leave its mark on the body, an insufficient salary, a profession different from the one we would have liked to exercise but that we must carry out with love because circumstances have led us to it and that it is no longer possible to abandon, failure due to an oversight or ridiculous mistake, misunderstandings, the character of someone with whom every day we have to spend many hours side by side, unfulfilled noble dreams..., the acceptance of one's own self, the acceptance of one's own will, the acceptance of one's own will and the acceptance of the will of God. ..., the acceptance of oneself with all its limitations, without this killing the desire to improve and, above all, to grow in virtues.
The joyful acceptance of the divine will will always give us peace of soul and, in human terms, it will avoid useless wear and tear, but often it will not suppress pain. Jesus himself wept as we do. In the Letter to the Hebrews we read that in the days of his mortal life he offered prayers and supplications with powerful cries and tears. Our tears, when it is a painful event, do not offend God, but move his compassion.
Hablar con Dios