Meditation: Being Perfect as the Father is Perfect

God's embrace, God's love makes holy.  We can only allow, receive and do everything we can to remove obstacles, to be attentive to God's will--which is always intent on our good, on making us capable of receiving him:

We must become aware that God dwells within us and do everything with him, then we are never commonplace even when performing the most ordinary tasks, for we do not live in these things, we go beyond them.  A supernatural soul never deals with natural causes but with God alone. (Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity)

Every human person is a unique creation of love and has his or her irreplaceable function within God's glorious plan of love.  There is no such thing as competition; it is senseless to compare this one with that.  Each vocation is totally unique; and temperament, circumstances, all the elements that go to make up my life are directed toward the shaping of that particular "form" which is to receive God's love and express his beauty in a way unique to itself, thus becoming a living praise of the glory of his self-bestowing love: "Each incident, each event, each suffering as well as each joy is a sacrament that gives God to it" (Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity)
Sr. Ruth Burrows O.C.D.