A life of discipleship is a life open to allowing God to work through us, even though that sometimes means letting go of good ministries, places, relationships, and personal ambitions. It’s through this holy indifference that God transforms our interior lives in a way that is reflected in how we live.
What attachments do you have that are obstacles to cultivating the interior freedom to which God calls you? What gets in the way of your turning back to God and wholeheartedly responding, “Here I am”? Success, recognition, security, imposter syndrome, an unwillingness to engage with different opinions?
[Consider] the ways we have not responded to God’s call to discipleship with generosity or freedom. It’s only in cultivating a spirit of interior freedom, of asking God for this grace in our daily activities, that we can offer back to God the gift of our lives. And in this process of letting go of our attachments, knowing the cost of discipleship, and still choosing to be faithful, we can better hear God speak to us of our belovedness, of our common belonging in God. [Today,] let us examine our interior attachments so that we can freely respond, like Abraham, “Here I am,” and allow God to transform our lives.
--Salena Ibrahim
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