I Am Learning

OK, I think I just learned how to do a link to another blog. As it turns out, it wasn't difficult, just a matter of following the prompts.

Learning to follow prompts is, for me, not entirely the easy path to follow. My mother once remarked that I make things hard for myself.

Why? It has something to do with that childhood response to adults which I saw repeatedly in my own daughter. "I can do it myself, Mom."

If the focus is on demonstrating independence then taking cues strewn along the way will not come easily. My daughter struggled to dress herself before she could manage all the pulling and tugging and buttoning with ease. "Try unbuttoning the dress before you pull it over your head," I would murmur (was I murmuring or is that just how I remember it?)

"I can do it myself, Mom".

"If you take your shoes off before you put on your pants, they will go on more easily."

"I can do it myself, Mom."


But this is not really about my daughter, it is about me.

"Come to adoration and offer your joy and your tears and your incompleteness to me, for I am here!"

"I can handle this hurt today if I just get busy, and anyway I don't have time for adoration. I can do it myself, God."

"Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Mt. 11:28

A good night's sleep will do wonders.

Someone who has trouble, not always, but often enough following the promptings of the Holy Spirit, is not necessarily going to follow the prompts on a bit of software, now is she?

But today I did, and I am also going to adoration.

Deo, dicamus gratias!