Welcome back Carlos! This week we look at how to model ourselves in the way of abandonment allowing and embracing God's will in our life.Some quotes:G.K. Chesterton: "I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."Father Jean-Pierre de Caussade: "[People who accept everything] make use of things, not that they have any confidence in them, but because they are submissive to God's will, which they find active in the most unlikely situations. … Nor do they find anything tedious in life or anything to complain about, for they have a settled assurance that they are following the most perfect way. They enjoy supreme bliss because they see the fullness of God's power being exercised in whatever conditions of body or soul they find themselves, in whatever happens to them internally or externally and in whatever befalls them at each and every moment. Whatever the world offers them is nothing. They judge all things by God's standards. If [God] takes from them their powers of thought and speech, their books, their food, their friends, their health, and even life itself, it means no more to them than if He did the exact opposite…. They do not reason about what He does, but approve of it. They know it is never without significance."St. John of the Cross: "To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God."Dietrich von Hildebrand: "Readiness to change, taken in this sense, is the first prerequisite for the transformation in Christ. But, in addition thereto, more is needed: a glowing desire to become a new man in Christ; a passionate will to give oneself over to Christ. And this, again, presupposes a state of fluidity, as it were: that we should be like soft wax, ready to receive the imprint of the features of Christ. We must be determined not to entrench ourselves in our nature, not to maintain or assert ourselves, and above all, not to set up beforehand — however unconsciously — a framework of limiting or qualifying factors for the pervasive and re-creative light of Christ. Rather we must be filled with an unquenchable thirst for regeneration in all things. We must fully experience the bliss of flying into Christ's arms, who will transform us by His light beyond any measure we might ourselves intend. We must say as did St. Paul on the road to Damascus; ‘Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?' "Links to references:https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/prayer-of-abandonment-361https://catholicstrength.com/tag/we-are-always-under-the-fathers-providential-care/https://www.amazon.com/Abandonment-Divine-Providence-Translated-Introduction/dp/1420959034/ref=sr_1_12?crid=1B1B2WDX29RQ5&keywords=abandonment+to+divine&qid=1651605260&sprefix=abandonment+to+divine%2Caps%2C334&sr=8-12https://www.amazon.com/Transformation-Christ-Dietrich-Von-Hildebrand/dp/0898708699/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=transformation+in+christ+von+hildebrand&qid=1651605320&sr=8-1 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sonsofjoseph.substack.com