Wednesday, April 1, 2009

From Dan Parrot, CEO The Finishers Project

"This is really an issue of trust. We tend to 'trust' when things seem clear. That is not really trust. There is no risk involved. Risk is always present with trust. Listen to this excerpt from Brennan Manning's book, Ruthless Trust: "On the first morning there he (John Kavanaugh) 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 US: 'Pray that I have clarity.' She said firmly, 'No, I will not do that.' When he asked her why she said, 'Clarity is the last thing you are clinging to and must let go of.' When 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 trust God.'"

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