“So,” Phyllis, our Sunday School teacher today, said to my husband re his response to her question about humility, “you’re saying we should say” (quoting the Lord’s prayer)Â “‘Thy will be done’?”
“By us,” I added.
She stopped and appraised that thought a moment. “Thy will be done by us?”
Oh, if only. If only always. Is there anything that requires greater humility and love than that?
We can’t know, only God knows from moment to moment, how we could use our time and talents for the best, right here right now and in working towards some moment in the future we cannot really know. We try to do the right thing; we try to see ourselves honestly, our faults and our warps, pray that our intentions might be as pure as we want to see them as, and offer our hearts to Him and our fellow man:
Here I am. There’s only one of me, but I can do some things, at least. Point me in the right direction–and please, loudly enough that I might stand a chance of hearing it above the noise.