Dear God, you move the levers of this world, direct the doings of each soul. Your will presides over all. When I consider the scope of this, your work in my life seems minor. Yet this is the realm in which I meet you: that of my day to day thoughts and actions.
The greatest power I have seen you visit upon the world is not some global feat; but it is in the inexorable improvement of my attitude.
You have taken me from ignorance and obstinance to awareness and willingness. Awareness of my shortcomings, awareness of my non-centrality. Awareness of my assets. Awareness, after all, of my place.
And you have delivered to me willingness. Willingness to improve, willingness to place others' welfare before my own. Willingness to work. Willingness, after all, to seek and to do your will.
This is the miracle, O Lord. That I seek you, even as the world and my selfishness tell me no. After all, yet I seek you.
Let me seek you today. Let me grow in my willingness to do so. Let me act as you would direct. Let me be grateful for the miracle of your dominion over me.
(Letter #955)
Daily Letters to God 