When the brilliant ethicist John Kavanaugh went to work for
three months at “the house of the dying” in Calcutta, he was seeking a clear
answer as to how best to spend the rest of his life. On the first morning there he met Mother Teresa. She asked, “And what can I do for
you?” Kavanaugh asked her to pray
for him.
“What do you want me to pray for?” she asked. He voiced the request that he had borne
thousands of miles form the United States: “Pray that I have clarity.”
She said firmly, “No, I will not do that.”
When he asked her why, she said, “Clarity is the last thing you are clinging to and must let
go of.”
When Kavanaugh commented that she always seemed to have the
clarity he longed for, she laughed and said, “I have never had clarity; what I
have always had is trust. So I
will pray that you trust God.”
(from
Ruthless Trust, by Brennan Manning, 2000)
Kind of amazing that I heard this quoted today on the radio by Lauren Diagle. I wanted to look up the story and I did and found this post by Mark Hollingsworth.....My name is Audury Hollingsworth.
ReplyDeleteCrazy how God works.