When the brilliant ethicist John Kavanaugh went to work for 3 months at “the house of the dying” in Calcutta, he was seeking a clear answer as to how best to spend the rest of his life. On the first morning there he met Mother Teresa.  She asked, “And what can I do for you?”

Kavanaugh asked her to pray for him. “What do you want me to pray for?” she asked.

He voiced the request that he had borne thousands of miles from the United States. “Pray that I have clarity.”

She said firmly, “No, I will not do that…Clarity is the last thing you are clinging to and must let go of.”  

Kavanaugh commented that she always seemed to have the clarity he longed for, she laughed and said, “I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust. So I will pray that you will trust God.”

Thanks for the message, Uncle Russ.

(Yes, Micah, I’m referring to your uncle. LOL)