… an attitude of obedience … of following …
” … it is not up to us to choose the road through which the Mystery leads the other to his destiny. We are the ones who have to submit to the modality used by the Mystery to bring us and others to destiny: this is obedience. Instead, we think that love means trying to spare this from the other person, as if God didn’t love him as much as we do, thinking that we are the ones who truly love him; we are so arrogant as to think that we are loving, because we want to spare the other person the journey, while the Mystery doesn’t really love that person as much, since He is not sparing him the journey. This is our secret conclusion. This doesn’t mean that we can’t collaborate with what is asked; on the contrary, it is impossible not to collaborate, not to help the other, no matter the cost. But it means collaborating and helping the other person to follow the modality through which the Mystery leads him to destiny, which happens according to Another’s plan.”
entire text of Julian Carron’s School of Community 11/18/10