God’s will is that I find my deepest joy.
When the Rev. Dorothea Harvey passed into the spiritual world last week she left quite a legacy as the first woman ordained in the Swedenborgian Church.
We honored her in worship here in Fryeburg, reading the wonderful excerpt that was printed in her obituary where Dorothea offered the lovely and profound statement:
“God’s will is not alien to my own will;
God’s will is that I find my deepest joy.”
Christian history and tradition is full of all kinds of ideas of what “God’s will,” might be for us. At times renunciation of the world, self flagellation, servitude, denial of the flesh, martyrdom, etc. And perhaps for each Christian these paths were what, at the time, led them to their greatest joy & their greatest connection to God.
And what I wonder will lead me to mine?
I am grateful to Dorothea for her life, for her bravery and her wisdom. She has stood in a line of saints that have been helping to birth the new church into the world for generations. May we all honor her part by doing ours.
March 04 2010 02:10 pm | Happiness
Nancy on 04 Mar 2010 at 6:19 pm #
Welcome Back to the blogosphere, Sage!
Lori on 08 Mar 2010 at 1:54 pm #
Why is this one so hard to figure out?? At least, I find it to be such a mystery. When do I feel joy, how do I get there? And the moments I feel it, it seems I grasp, oh so briefly, how simple it is. Then, poof!