Striving for Perfection

 

Treatment by Suzanne Delahaie, RScP

We just saw a rerun of the delightful Opera Cosi fan Tutti.  We really enjoyed it.  Danielle de Niese as the servant Despina stole the show.  Isabel Leonard and Susanna Philips as the two sisters were great.  The quality of acting has improved greatly in Operas, since we were younger.  I am in this prayer recognizing the striving for perfection as humanity grows towards greater and greater union with God.  It is seen in all areas of human endeavor: acting, sports,  and technology (just to name a few)

I know that there is only one, one mind, one spirit.  I know that this spirit moves and has its being in and through us.  Our being is God.  Our life is God’s life.  I know that this being as God impels us to higher and greater manifestation of its life.  It seen in all aspects of life.  This compulsion to be better, as in the words of Rickie Byers Beckwith, is to make us  “… an opening for God. To make me Stronger”  This opening for God is that which makes us strive.  I know that this striving for higher and better makes all of us better.  I know that this truth is seen in all areas of life.  I  do give thanks for this divine compulsion to be better, to come closer and closer to what we can become.  I know that this is so.  And So it IS.

Treatment for July 20, 2016