January 18, 2015

FOUR SHORT WORDS:

“THY WILL BE DONE.”

We say, we pray, those 4 words

so flippantly, so easily, without

thinking, without realizing, without

knowing, what we’re really saying.

“Father forgive us, because

we don’t know what we’re doing.”

What we’re actually saying,

what we’re actually wanting,

is that our will be done

on earth as it is in heaven.

“Father forgive us, because we

don’t know what we’re doing.”

And what happens as a result, is

our nailing ourselves to a cross –

to a life of wanting our way - to be

done – and that’s why we hurt.

“Father forgive us, because

We don’t know what we’re doing.”

Resurrection, Easter for us, happens

when we get off this deadly way of dying.

Living is when we let go of and are

freed from these nails that control us.

Living is when we get off that cross

and say to God and those around us,

those 4 short words: “Thy will be done.”

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2015