The Divine Will is nothing less than our full surrender to the Love of God. All things are Ordered by the Magnificence of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in Glorious moving, creative Love relating with each other.
We’re invited to trust and come into the never ending Holy Presence of the Exuberance of Joy that consummates material and immaterial realities with an endless Creative Energy.
God’s Divine will is not the imposition of control – it’s a co-participation in the very Unknowable Essence of God as Love that renews itself in Storied Movements composing “musical harmonies” of Life unfolding from emerging possibilities. Imagine all things self-correcting and adjusting their trajectories along on an undefined path of Awesome Goodness situated in God (God is Love). Imagine being free of our broken, sinful natures; released from constant selfish assertions of self-determination. God enjoin us with Himself in a perpetual Chorus of never ending melodic integration of infinite differentiating voices that are all “parts” of Christ’s Mystical Body. There in this delicious music we experience our Precious Lord’s Heart beating, and His Breath saturated with Holy Spirit animating Life.
This is a mystery. How can we possibly talk about it? The point is to invite God into the heart of the Freedom He gave us. We are created in His Image, and meant to be co-creators of Love’s gorgeous tapestry woven with the thread of Sacred Imagination that calls all things into interrelated Communion and Being through the Trinitarian Power of Love. It is truly Awesome and Good that God desires to share His Life with us.
Jesus taught us how to pray. I don’t think we ever come close to tapping into the tiniest fraction of our Priestly potential as agencies of prayer. Thank heavens we have an eternity to grow in this Wondrous common Purpose.
Jesus invites us to habituate our pursuit of holiness through the recitation of the Lord’s Prayer. God’s Word is always True. We can be sure that our daily prayer for, “His Will to be done on earth as it is in heaven,” will be answered! The sanctification of His Church in an Era of Peace will be the fruits of this prayer. Given our fallen natures its one heck of a request, and yet it’s a certain blessing that conforms with the gravitational pull of God’s Love ordering all things in His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.
This Lent I’ve decided to dive into the writings and revelations of the mystic, servant of God Luisa Piccarreta. Here’s a link to a short biography of her life. Daniel O’Connor has written about and studied Luisa’s life, revelations, and writings. His website and books are a good place to dive deeper.
I’m sharing this Prayer of Consecration to the Divine Will. I’ve started praying it daily. Like many devotionals, I’m feeling it slowly grow on me. It’s rich and there’s lots in it.
Let’s pray for each other that we might abandon ourselves with complete child like trust in the Divine Will – the Love of our Good and great God. We are living in interesting times. Seeking God’s Will has never been more important. We are on the cusp of the answer to Our Lord’s Prayer.
Prayer of Consecration to the Divine Will
O adorable and Divine Will, here I am, before the immensity of Your Light, that Your eternal Goodness may open to me the doors, and make me enter into It, to form my life all in You, Divine Will.
Therefore, prostrate before Your Light, I, the littlest among all creatures, come, O adorable Will, into the little group of the first children of Your Supreme Fiat. Prostrate in my nothingness, I beseech and implore Your endless Light, that It may want to invest me and eclipse everything that does not belong to You, in such a way that I may do nothing other than look, comprehend and live in You, Divine Will.
It will be my life, the center of my intelligence, the enrapturer of my heart and of my whole being. In this heart the human will will no longer have life; I will banish it forever, and will form the new Eden of peace, of happiness and of love. With It I shall always be happy, I shall have a unique strength, and a sanctity that sanctifies everything and brings everything to God.
Here prostrate, I invoke the help of the Sacrosanct Trinity, that They admit me to live in the cloister of the Divine Will, so as to restore in me the original order of Creation, just as the creature was created.
Celestial Mother, Sovereign Queen of the Divine Fiat, take me by the hand and enclose me in the Light of the Divine Will. You will be my guide, my tender Mother; You will guard your child, and will teach me to live and to maintain myself in the order and in the bounds of the Divine Will. Celestial Sovereign, to your Heart I entrust my whole being; I will be the tiny little child of the Divine Will. You will teach me the Divine Will, and I will be attentive in listening to You. You will lay your blue mantle over me, so that the infernal serpent may not dare to penetrate into this Sacred Eden to entice me and make me fall into the maze of the human will.
Heart of my highest Good, Jesus, You will give me Your flames, that they may burn me, consume me and nourish me, to form in me the life of the Supreme Will.
Saint Joseph, You will be my Protector, the Custodian of my heart, and will keep the keys of my will in Your hands. You will keep my heart jealously, and will never give it to me again, that I may be sure never to go out of the Will of God.
Guardian Angel, guard me, defend me, help me in everything, so that my Eden may grow flourishing, and be the call of the whole world into the Will of God.
Celestial Court, come to my help, and I promise You to live always in the Divine Will.
Amen.
