52 in 25: #3 - Into Your Hands, Father

 

For spiritual reading, a friend recently gave me the book Into Your Hands, Father: Abandoning Ourselves to the God Who Loves Us by Fr. Wilfrid Stinissen.  I have been slowly working through this during my Holy Hour, and it is beautiful.  It was published by Ignatius Press in 2011, but originally published in Swedish in 1986.

 

The purpose of the book is to help the reader to get to a place of complete abandonment to God’s Will.  As such, it is broken up into three sections: “Accepting God’s Will,” “Obeying God’s Will,” and “Being God’s Instrument.”  Essentially, the first part is understanding that God has a perfect Will for you, that He loves you, and it has a great meditation on surrendering your past and your memories.  The second part is becoming an active agent of God’s Will, seeing how it effects every aspect of our lives and discerning it everywhere and every time.  Finally, and he acknowledges that not everyone can get here, is to complete surrender to God; rather than actively discerning His Will, it is getting out of the way and allowing God to work through you.

 

It is a great little book (only 105 pages).  It’s well worth a read, and I’ve already recommended it to a few people.  Anything we can do to grow closer to God and allow Him to work more effectively is always a positive.