As long as we want to decide for ourselves where we will find God…we will only find a touched up version of ourselves. Genuine spirituality begins when we are prepared to die. Could there be a quicker way to die than to let God form our lives from moment to moment as we continually consent to his actions?”
(Into Your Hands Father, by Wilfred Stinissen)
The Crosses we embrace, even the little ones that arise out of the banality and ordinary service we perform, keep us from creating a God in our own image, or a spirituality of self absorption. God will decide the place of encounter, and we just need to surrender to that moment.