If we'd only just believe...

Throw-Back Thursday on a Friday...

I was going through some old notebooks and found this reflection that I wrote during a retreat I made in 2009:

     God desires us beyond our wildest imagination.  He made us for the only reason that He wants us to live in eternal ecstasy by uniting us with Him in love.  Written in our being is a desire for God's desire to be fulfilled.  In other words, we desire what God desires, even if we don't recognize it.

     Even if we do recognize it, we often fall to fear because we think that we have to earn it.  It has already been earned, however, by Jesus.  All we have to do is let go of our pride, which we can only do by grace.  Our pride keeps us from giving our weaknesses over to Jesus for fear of shame.  When Adam and Eve sinned they hid themselves from God for fear of God seeing their weakness.  Only when we give it all to God, however, can we achieve what He desires for us.

    We must first of all believe in love if we want this to happen.  Then we can believe that we are loved and then be confident to be vulnerable in front of God.  Then, believing still, we can give ourselves over to Him completely.  Through His love we can do all things.  If we'd only just believe...