“Give me, o Lord, what you command, and command what you will” (St. Augustine).
With our eyes fixed on our heavenly Father, we can confidently utter this prayer, which moves us to give ourselves completely to the Lord and to refuse Him nothing. Often we are still reluctant to entrust ourselves unreservedly to our Father, clinging to the seemingly solid foundation of our natural inclinations. Perhaps there is even a certain fear that our Father will ask something of us that we are not ready to give Him.
Here we need to invoke the Spirit of fortitude that will enable us to take these steps and then accompany us in putting them into practice in daily life, thus strengthening our resolve. The Spirit of the Lord will also remind us that our Father never asks anything of us without giving us the necessary grace to fulfill it. Once, thanks to the Spirit of fortitude, we have taken these steps and overcome any possible uncertainty and fear of what may lie ahead, we can boldly ask our Father to communicate to us all the desires of His heart and to tell us what He wants from us.
Then, instead of fear, a joyful expectation of what our Father has planned for us and a deep gratitude to be able to serve Him more deeply can arise. This is also true for those things we cannot foresee.
In this way, our familiarity with the Father grows and our dialogue with Him becomes more natural and free of vague fears, replaced by a growing trust, even if we sometimes experience relapses.