Our Lady of Sorrows
15/September/2007 Filed in:
JottingsYesterday's feast was all victory and triumph, today's is full of human sorrow and bafflement in the face of God's will. It is (comparatively) easy to pray to do God's will when everything is clear and unambiguous. When things are not so straightforward, when there is doubt, hesitation, confusion, conflict perhaps, it can take an heroic effort of will to entrust ourselves to the hands of God. We know in faith that those hands will never allow us to fall, but there can be times when the gaps between the fingers, so to say, make us very uncertain. Today's podcast uses a prayer of Thomas Merton who knew at first hand how difficult it can be to trust.