"We have difficulty understanding this,
just as a blind man has difficulty understanding color, but our difficulty
doesn’t alter this fact: God’s omnipotence and omniscience respects our
freedom. In the core of our being we remain free to accept or reject God’s
action in our lives—and to accept or reject it more or less intensely. God
wants us to accept him with all our ‘heart, soul, mind, and strength’—in other
words, as intensely as possible. But he also knows that we are burdened with
selfishness and beset by the devil, so it will take a great effort on our part
to correspond to his grace. … Every time our conscience nudges us to refrain
from sharing or tolerating that little bit of gossip, every time we feel a tug
in our hearts to say a prayer or give a little more effort, every time we
detect an opportunity to do a hidden act of kindness to someone in need, we are
faced with an opportunity to please the Lord by putting our faith in his will."
— Fr. John Bartunek, The Better Part, p. 591
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