After reading Father Keating’s complete writings on “Powerlessness”, I am drawn to two passages. “Finally, powerlessness is the greatest power there is because it enables one to simply be more an more a channel of God’s power and love, because the project is not our aggrandizement or perfection.” …and… “With time you become content with your weakness and happy to be utterly dependent on God.”
The only way I can become a channel of God’s hope to the world is to become as powerless as a water conduit – just open, no role except to stay open, allowing God’s hope to flow through me to the world. Am I always content with my weakness? No, yet progress is faithfully made, twenty minutes, twice a day. <3 linda
