Indeed. Try to read the signs, but rember we are footsoldiers; God is the strategist. Footsoldiers know tactics, but they generally don't know the strategy. The ones you have most influence on and can be most helpful to are your family and your local community--do the right thing there, and everything else will follow.
We don't see the end game; we have to trust God. Abraham didn't know what God had in store for him: he just trusted and "went forth from his father's house". Mary didn't know what God had in store for her; she just trusted and said "Behold the handmaid of the Lord; let it be done to me according to Thy word."
John Henry Cardinal Newman wrote a poem that was set to music as "Lead Kindly Light":
Indeed. Try to read the signs, but rember we are footsoldiers; God is the strategist. Footsoldiers know tactics, but they generally don't know the strategy. The ones you have most influence on and can be most helpful to are your family and your local community--do the right thing there, and everything else will follow.
We don't see the end game; we have to trust God. Abraham didn't know what God had in store for him: he just trusted and "went forth from his father's house". Mary didn't know what God had in store for her; she just trusted and said "Behold the handmaid of the Lord; let it be done to me according to Thy word."
John Henry Cardinal Newman wrote a poem that was set to music as "Lead Kindly Light":