Do you worship clarity?
The Jesuit philosopher John Kavanaugh went to work at “The House of the Dying” in Calcutta.
At the time, he was seeking a clear answer to how to spend the rest of his life.
On his first morning there, he met Mother Teresa.
She asked, “And what can I do for you?”
He asked her to pray for him.
She asked, “What do you want me to pray for?”
He said, “Pray that I have clarity.”
She firmly said, “No, I will not do that.”
He asked, “Why?”
She said, “Clarity is the last thing you are clinging to, and must let go of.”
He 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.”